Re: The trade

[jmc@ptc.com (Jonathan McIntyre)]

Scott Manley said:
> Has anyone noticed, that since the trade the C's only have 10 active
> players on their roster.  They now have 4 on injured reserve(Dontoa Jones,
> Pervis, P. Jones and Taback).  I'm surprised the league office hasn't been
> after them for not carrying a full roster.  I think Dontao will be
> activated soon since he's been practicing with the team since Dec. but
> P.Jones is out for the year and Taback and Pervis are still a few weeks
> away from playing. Maybe they will raid the CBA for a 12th man.

Theresa Lee responded
> Jones and Ellison can't be activated for 4 more days.  At least Jones will
> be activated then; not sure about Pervis. I've heard mixed reports about
> Pervis from Pitino in the Globe.


I heard the same thing last night on the TV or radio.  The league says that 
the players received in the trade have to come as "activated" players, not 
on the injured list.  So Toronto has to consider Rogers as "active" and 
Boston has to consider P.Jones and Tabak as "active" for 5 days from the trade.

That means the Celtics will have 12 players active, which is the maximum. 
Of course, only 9 were at the game last night, and only 10 will dressed to 
play once Anderson is there.  After the 5 day period, they can put Tabak 
and P. Jones on the injured list, which will give them room to take Ellison 
and/or D. Jones off, if they're ready to come off, and they said last night 
both of them were about ready to play. 

So the Celtics *have* been carrying a full roster of 12 "active" players 
the whole time, it's just that 2 of them (P.Jones and Tabak) are currently 
unable to play. 

What I'm surprised about is that the league office hasn't been after them 
for keeping 3 players on the injured list the whole season when clearly 
there have been times when some of those players haven't been injured. 
Now that won't be a problem anymore, since they're down to 2 extra players, 
and one is out for the season, so if everyone else gets healthy at the same 
time they'll only have to fake 1 injury at a time instead of up to 3. 
I doubt that pick up a CBA guy for any more than 10 days because then they 
might have to start faking 2 injuries again. 

By the way, it's spelled  Dontae', with an apostrophe at the end. 
Just think "a-e-i-o-u", with the "i-o-u" replaced by an apostrophe. 

Jon Mc