Re: LOTTERY SYSTEM SUCKS!

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

If we don't resign Day, Fox, Brick, Hamer, Szabo, & Lister we should have
about $7M under the cap enough to get a Sam Cassell or wait for McDyess,
Joe Smith, Rasheed  Wallace, or Vin Baker.

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> From: Colin Hall <colin@inet-direct.com>
> To: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: LOTTERY SYSTEM SUCKS!
> Date: Sunday, May 18, 1997 3:19 PM
> 
> I cannot believe that with the highest percentage available we still only
> got a freakin #3 pick. Duncan and Mercer will almost certainly be gone. 
I
> am very pissed.
> 
> Why does the NBA use this system?  Why not just assign the team with the
> worst record the #1 pick, the team with the 2nd worst record the #2 pick
and
> so on?  I am sure the NBA has their reasoning, but whatever it is I wish
> they would look again.  Your basing a team's future for the next 5-10
years
> on CHANCE alone.  The systems must go!
> 
> Who will we draft now?   Battie, Van Honrne, Billups, Thomas???
> 
> God I am dissapointed.
> 
> Also, with the Reggie Lewis salary and the several players who will be
gone
> it is dissapointing that we still have little cap room.  I don't see any
> trades that any team will bite on that will allow us to free significant
> room.  Alos, no free agents that we will be able to sign.  I liked the
> signing of Pitino, but I guess we shouldn't excpect big changes for 3 or
4
> years.
> 
> NO DUNCAN:(
> 
> Guess I need to take my Dincan pic off my page now.
>
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