re yesterday's events

[Dan <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

The Celtic management knew what they were doing to the Chief when they set
up this date. Bird has had plenty of acknowledgements of his past. It was
supposed to be the Chief's day. This is the way this organization works. I
mean no disrespect but enough is enough. Without McHale and the Chief, Bird
would have been just another gunner. The Chief deserved his own day. His
response was "I'm used to it" with Larry grabbing the spotlite. To Birds
credit, he has said many times that the Chief was the key to their success.
Remember this is Boston baby and the management had some racial problems of
their own. Just look at some of our past aquisitions, meaning the white
players we drafter, bought or traded for, over much better talent. There is
still a little left over, odor from the past. 

>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 13:53:48 EST
>From: jwt2@lehigh.edu (jwt2@lehigh.edu)
>Subject: yesterday's events
>
>Does anyone besides me feel that Larry stole Robert's show yesterday?
>
>I think that the celtics shouldn't have made Robert Parish day on the same
day
>as Bird's first return to Boston.  I didn't see what the local media did
>because i'm in Pennsylvania right now, but NBC totally overhyped Bird's
>return.  Iit wasn't until late in the second quarter when they went to
>Hannah Storm in the NBC studio that it was even mentioned that Robert's
number
>was being retired.  When they showed the various signs that the fans at the
>game made, more of them were for Larry than the Chief.
>
>I know that they wanted to do it on a day when Larry would have been in town,
>but they could have done it on a day when the Pacers weren't playing, or they
>could have done it on Larry's SECOND time back in Boston.  That way less of
>the attention would have been on his return.
>
>Jeff
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