Re: Remember Michael Smith?

[Marc Pierce <karhu@umich.edu>]

The Celtics drafted Smith in 1989 and I think he played two seasons for
them.  Then he was in Spain for a while, and turned up playing for the
Clippers at the tail end of the 94-95 season, where he pretty much just
sat on the bench.

If I remember right, not to open up old wounds any further than they
already have been, Red Auerbach was the only one who wanted to draft
Smith; the rest of the brain trust apparently wanted Hardaway.

Marc Pierce


On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Ed Ag wrote:

> 
>      I was watching parts of the Nuggets-Clippers last night (Maurice Taylor
> would sure look good in green!)
>      Anyway, doing the color commentary for the Clips was none other than
> Michael Smith.  Anyone remember him?  He was drafted by the Celtics and
> played briefly for the team around 1990, can't recall the exact year.
> He was a decent commentator.
>      What I remember mainly about Smith is that when he was drafted in the
> first round out of BYU by the Celtics, one of the players still available
> was Tim Hardeway!  To this day it always hurts a little bit to watch this
> great guard in action.  Ed
> 
> Ed Ag  afn15554@afn.org                                                                      
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