Re: Carr resigns as head of basketball operations

["JLyell" <jlyell@concentric.net>]

Can you say major housecleaning !!!!

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> From: R. Bentz Kirby <bocelts@scsn.net>
> To: Celtic Mail <celtics@igtc.com>
> Subject: Carr resigns as head of basketball operations
> Date: Wednesday, May 07, 1997 9:12 PM
> 
> I just picked this up a Nando News url is below:
> 
>
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ap/bkb/1997/nba/bos/feat/archive/050797/bos221
63.html
> 
> ML is going to be head of corporate development.  I think it is terrible
that DJ got fired, but I suspect he will end up in Indiana with Larry
> Joe Bird!
> 
> 
> 
> Carr resigns, Bird's future with Celtics uncertain
> 
> 
> (c) 1997 Copyright Nando.net
> (c) 1997 Associated Press
> 
> BOSTON (May 7, 1997 - 20:02 EST) -- The question is the same as it was
> when Larry Bird made blind
> passes or amazing shots from behind the backboard: What will he do next?
> 
> M.L. Carr's resignation as director of basketball operations Wednesday
> left one key figure's future
> uncertain in the shakeup of the Boston Celtics.
> 
> And Bird's decision -- to help new Celtics coach Rick Pitino with
> personnel matters or, more likely, to
> become coach of the Indiana Pacers -- should be revealed by Friday.
> 
> Pacers president Donnie Walsh and a source close to Bird denied reports
> Wednesday that Bird already had
> agreed to return to his home state and succeed Larry Brown as Indiana's
> coach.
> 
> A Celtics spokesman said the club was unaware of any decision Bird might
> have made.
> 
> That decision -- as Pitino said Tuesday when he was named coach -- might
> come down to whether Bird
> wants to be in the front office talking by telephone to general managers
> or on the bench helping his team
> win games as he did throughout his brilliant 13-year career with Boston
> that ended in 1992. He has been a
> special consultant for the Celtics since then.
> 
> "I think he'd do better as a coach, although he'll do pretty good as a
> manager," said Celtics president Red
> Auerbach, who took Bird with the sixth pick of the 1978 draft one year
> before he was eligible to leave
> Indiana State.
> 
> "He'll do well at anything because he's bright and he's very motivated.
> When he has a purpose to do
> something, he does it," Auerbach added. "As a coach, you're right out
> there and you're working with
> players. As a general manager, you're dealing with other guys who may
> not want to deal with you."
> 
> WISH-TV in Indianapolis, citing an unnamed source close to the family of
> co-owner Herb Simon,
> reported that Bird had made a verbal agreement and that the deal was to
> be finalized Wednesday night.
> 
> The Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence, which didn't cite its source, said Bird
> would sign a contract with Indiana
> on Friday worth about $4 million a year. The newspaper said the former
> Celtics great would coach at least
> two seasons, with an option to then become the team's director of
> basketball operations.
> 
> The Boston Globe said the offer was $4.5 million a year plus part
> ownership and that an unidentified
> source close to Bird indicated Bird would accept it but delay the
> announcement until after Pitino's
> scheduled news conference Thursday in Boston.
> 
> Walsh said the deal for Bird to succeed Brown, who resigned April 30 and
> has since been named coach of
> the Philadelphia 76ers, wasn't final.
> 
> "I have confirmed we have made him an offer. We want him to be our
> coach. But he has not accepted the
> offer," Walsh said. "I think he's still trying to decide. That's where
> we are."
> 
> The source close to Bird said, "My understanding is still that he's
> receiving information on which to make
> decisions. ... There's no way he would just jump into a situation
> without looking at everything."
> 
> Carr's resignation one week after he stepped down as coach was expected.
> The Celtics had a franchise
> worst 15-67 record last season and missed the playoffs in his two
> seasons.
> 
> Carr will stay with the club under a multiyear agreement as executive
> vice president of corporate
> development.
> 
> The Celtics also announced the firings of head scout Rick Weitzman,
> director of basketball development
> Jon Jennings and assistant coaches K.C. Jones, Dennis Johnson and John
> Kuester.
> 
> At least 11 Celtics employees, including Carr and general manager Jan
> Volk, have left their jobs in
> connection with Pitino's decision to leave Kentucky after eight seasons
> and accept a 10-year deal worth an
> estimated $70 million.
> 
> Bird had said earlier that he wouldn't want to coach the Celtics
> although he did not rule out coaching
> elsewhere.
> 
> He told the Indianapolis Star that his interest in returning to Indiana
> "is very high because I hear people are
> excited. Basically, I feel everything has been positive."
> 
> "It just comes down to do I want to coach or do I want to help put a
> team together?," Bird said. "I just
> feel if I'm going to get in, I might as well try it now. Either do it or
> shut your mouth and stay retired."
> 
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