Re: Bird on Wesley and Brown

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

>        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 JoeSmith. Was
Walker the bait?

As previously stated I think he will be gone by year end.  With McDyess &
Baker in new residences Smith could be the logical choice and it would make
sense for G.S. and could happen if the Celtics can get a reasonable contract
out of him.



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>        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, "Justbecause you give $4 million to a $1
million player, it's not going to make him $3 million better.

Ouch !  Who is Mgmt. he refers to ? Red Auerbach ?
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