Chris Mills, we hardly knew ye...

[Michael Joseph Byrnes <mbyrnes@leland.Stanford.EDU>]

The Celtics have just traded Chris Mills (didn't Pitino say that Mills was
a guy who he expected to have a round for the next 7 years?) to the New
York Knicks along with 2 second round picks (New York's choice of any
two of the C's next six second rounders) for Walter McCarty, Dontae Jones,
John Thomas, and Scott Brooks.  

What exactly is the point of a deal like this.  Obviously, the C's beef up
the frontcourt and ditch Mills' salary (I imagine none of the others are
signed long term), but they now have 17 players on their roster.  No way
the NBA lets them hide *five* players on the injured list.  Even if we
assume that Scott Brooks and Cunningham are toast, that still leaves 15
players, three of which can't make the team.

Either Pitino has something else in the works, or he made the whole Knick
deal for one or two players and he is going to eat some contracts.

Michael Byrnes
mbyrnes@stanford.edu