Will McDonough Likes Mashburn Trade; Season Starts In Six Weeks

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Will says PJ Brown can play "big", and Walker - Pitino don't get along.


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                                [Boston Globe Online / Sports]

                                Red Sox in no hurry

                                Team figures to let open market set price for Vaughn

                                By Will McDonough, Globe Columnist, 10/31/98

                                <snip of good Red Sox and Doug Flutie stuff>

                                People close to the NBA labor negotiations think it will take another three
                                weeks to get resolved and three weeks after that before the games begin.
                                Despite what has been said publicly, the league will do everything it can to
                                reschedule as many missed games as possible.

                                ''I talked with other arena managers,'' said FleetCenter boss Rich Kreswick,
                                ''and all of us feel that these games will be made up. They are not going to
                                walk away from all of that money. None of us have a policy on what we are
                                going to do to repay the luxury box- [and seat-] holders. We have to see how
                                it all ends up.''

                                The players are now trying to bad-mouth NBC-TV for paying the owners while the
                                lockout is ongoing. What they don't seem to know is that the networks paid out
                                money to the NFL when its players were on strike. There was no way NBC would
                                have gotten the NBA contract unless it agreed to the pay schedule the league
                                wanted.

                                The 1998 Roger ''It's Hard When You
                                Have To Carry Your Own Bags'' Clemens Award goes to the Celtics' Kenny
                                Anderson. Anderson, who makes $5.8 million a year, says he has to tighten his
                                budget during the lockout and might even have to sell one of his eight luxury
                                cars, which range in price from $50,000 to $120,000 ... Newspaper reports have
                                had the Celtics trading Antoine Walker to Miami for Jamal Mashburn and P.J.
                                Brown after the NBA impasse. A New York paper yesterday picked up the story
                                and ran with it. It makes sense. Rick Pitino and Walker don't get along.
                                Mashburn and Brown (who can play big) would be better for Pitino's system.

                                Will McDonough is a Globe columnist.

                                

                                This story ran on page G01 of the Boston Globe on 10/31/98.
                                © Copyright 1998 Globe Newspaper Company.
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