Re: Vitaly's Summer Vacation

[mberry@journalink.com (Mark Berry)]

What has the good Lord done to so many of you on this list to make you such 
severe pessimists. For Pete's sake, our players are damned if they do and damned 
if they don't with some of us. If Antoine (or Vitaly, for that matter) said they 
didn't want to play in a summe league game for whatever reason, most of the list 
would be ready to ship them out for a draft pick. Now, we have a player who 
wants to play in the summer and wants to improve his game and we're worried 
because he might get hurt? Good God people, who hurt you like this? You need 
professional help, or at least a big hug. Geez.

Mark


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Subject: Vitaly's Summer Vacation


From:    peter delevett <pdelevett@amcity.com> at Internet


Date:    4/28/99  3:37 PM





This worries me a tad. All we need is to have Vitaly blow out a knee playing
against some goon from the Emanuel Baptist/Bob's Lube Shop Runnin' Cajuns.
Besides, the last time we had a Celtic who dominated the summer league, Rick
promptly shipped him off for two second-round picks.


j.hironaka wrote:

>The Boston Globe reports today on Potapenko

>The third-year center says he is prepared to play anywhere the Celtics'
>summer league teams travel. Pitino already has said there could be two
>summer teams, one in Los Angeles. The coach can write Potapenko's name
>on either roster tomorrow if he wants.

>''I'm going to play,'' Potapenko said.

>Most summer teams are filled with guys looking for multiyear contracts,
>not  by starters who already are armed with six-year deals averaging
>more than $5 million per season.