Re: Celtics rebuilding

[Vinny Natale <vnatale@map.com>]

I've been quite impressed with Dee Brown's play of late!  I would not mind
keeping him but we do have an excess of guards.  I like Chauncey and would
like to keep him.  I saw a lot of God Shammgod when he played for
Providence.  He is totally unstoppable when he is penetrating.  Or at least
he was on the college level.  But he hurt himself and the team by coming
out at least one year too early.

Vinny




At 11:09 AM 2/15/98 -0900, damekmo@teleport.com wrote:
>> also, the days of one-sided deals our way
>>is gone. we should never had Len Bias for Henderson in the first place &
>>picking up
>>Parish & McHale at one time today without big $$ would be impossible.
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>I couldn't agree more. Some thoughts about trades after a review of the
>morning papers. Chris Wallace says that at this time of year gm's are
>looking to make "talent deals" as opposed to slary cap deals. I assume he
>means that playoff caliber teams want talent to make a stronger run. Having
>said that, I think the Celtics have to pray that they're the back end of a
>three team swap because they just haven't got the proven talent to make a
>good team better straight-up. In any case, I still think they have to
>concentrate on their salary cap, so....playing Dee Brown as much as
>possible is the way to go. Now...having said that...Peter Vecsey (I know, I
>know) says that the Celtics continue to talk to teams about Billups and
>that the latest has Billups and Brown going to the Wizrds for Cheaney and
>God. God is a free agent after this year playing for the minimum, and
>Cheaney is free in '99 as opposed to Brown in '00. It appears that the
>Celtics get no real cap relief until '00. I think it's pretty clear from
>everything Pitino's said about "creating value" that Knight and Declercq
>are nothing but trade bait. Now if you're a gm, you're going to want to get
>something positive out of a trade that includes Dee "a serious cap problem"
>Brown. So,...if you had your choice, would you take Billups, Knight, or
>Declercq along with Brown? I'm afraid Billups is going either before the
>19th or sometime this summer. Brown and Barros need to go. It could be that
>Billups = cap relief.
>Cheaney and God for Billups and Brown?
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>Paul M
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