Bird on Wesley and Brown

[damekmo@teleport.com]

The following is from Peter Vecsey. Got it off the Fox NBA site:


>Larry Bird noticed Dave Cowens was smiling an awful lot during last
>month's league meetings. "That'll
        change when David Wesley starts hoisting up 20-footers with Glen
Rice open on the wings and Anthony
        Mason posted up inside," Bird said. "Wesley's a good player but
he's going to get off 10-12 shots a game
        no matter what, and he can't finish his move once he penetrates. He
reminds me a lot of Sam Vincent."


        Despite Boston telling a number of teams Antoine Walker is off
limits, don't be shocked if Rick Pitino
        packages him in order to extract Pervis Ellison or Dee Brown from
cap. From what I'm told, the Celtics -
        as well as the Heat and 76ers - were heavily in the hunt for Joe
Smith. Was Walker the bait?

        To put it mildly, Bird is not a big fan of Brown. "Dee may be in
good shape now, but he'll get hurt, wait
        and see," Bird predicts. "He doesn't work hard. Never did. Dave
Gavitt took the hit for re-signing Dee,
        but it was the owners who made that call, I was there. It was right
after Reggie Lewis died. They wanted
        the next-best player signed long-term. I tried to tell them, "Just
because you give $4 million to a $1 million
        player, it's not going to make him $3 million better.'" <




Paul M