Re: Hanging out with ML

["Jim Meninno" <jim_meninno@hotmail.com>]

It would have been nice if he could have "done his job" without signing 
Dee Brown, Pervis Ellison, Greg Minor and Dana Barros to contracts that 
were in excess of their worth, making them untradable (although they got 
very lucky with Dee).  I suppose that was their reward for staying with 
the team while it was tanking seasons.

Jim

>Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 12:15:15 -0500
>From: bocelts@scsn.net (R. Bentz Kirby)
>To: Theresa Lee <tjoyce@mit.edu>
>CC: celtics@igtc.com
>Subject: Re: Hanging out with ML
>
>
>> 3. When I told him that I even watched the Celtics during the 15 win
>> season, he said, "but that was by design." For what, I asked?  "To 
get
>> Timmy."  Then I asked him if he had heard about Duncan's disparaging
>> remarks....he had. I told him to give Duncan a hard time next time 
he's in
>> town.
>>
>
>And this was what I said many times when the press and fans were 
trashing ML.
>He was just doing his job.  That was all.  Too bad it didn't work out.  
And
>that was one reason he got to go to the lottery pick.  He did his job 
just as
>he was asked.  He took the heat for the Celtics.
>


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