RE: Boston Herald: Celtics Not Shopping Walker At The Moment

["Berry, Mark S" <mberry@journalink.com>]

Come on Josh, be reasonable. There are others out there who know a thing or
two about basketball who don't share your opinion. Time will tell on this
trade.

I like the trade for both teams. I think Denver gets a nice player (not a
future all-star) and I think Boston got a nice player (not a future
all-star). Those players fit each team's needs. The other players involved
in the trade are numbers. Anyone who expects the Eric Williams of his second
season in Boston is being a cockeyed optimist. And anyone in Denver
expecting Popeye to play 80 games and average 9 rebounds is being the same. 

The draft pick, I believe, is what both organizations see as the equalizer
in the deal. Both teams probably felt like Mercer for Fortson wasn't an even
exchange. Throw in the pick and, in their minds, it evens out.

That's my take and I like to think I know a little about basketball myself.
I don't understand this necessity to name a "winner" in every trade. Deals
often play out that way, but the idea is coming up with an even exchange.
Both teams got what they wanted in this trade. Let's judge it down the road.

Mark
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> From: 	Josh Ozersky
> Sent: 	Tuesday, August 10, 1999 3:58 PM
> To: 	j.hironaka@unesco.org; celtics@igtc.com
> Subject: 	Re: Boston Herald: Celtics Not Shopping Walker At The Moment
> 
> 
> No need to wonder on that score.  Anyone that thinks
> we lost out in the Mercer deal, or that we should have
> traded Antoine is an open-and-shut know-nothing, and
> Jim Rome's and Jackie McMullan's presence proves that
> even more.  I expect to be lectured on civics for
> saying this, but I really have no respect for that
> opinion -- it's on a par with dancing for the
> jumbotron.  And when I see that Alex Wang and you and
> Jim Mennino and all the BC cognescenti concur, it only
> confirms something I know to my core anyway.  If those
> idiots voted in a 99-1 margin, I would still be just
> as right and they would still be just as dumb.  I wish
> the Celtics were more of a cult thing, I really do.
> 
> --- j.hironaka@unesco.org wrote:
> > Josh Ozersky wrote:
> > 
> > > This is such music to my ears.
> > 
> > Exactamundo. We both supported Crazy Horse Antoine
> > Walker despite our
> > consistently expressed and I think overwhelming
> > instincts as old-school,
> > traditionalist Celtics fans at least on a par with
> > ANY person on this
> > list.  I think we appreciate what the old Celtics
> > were all about
> > (multiple skills and a furious desire to win, rather
> > than superior
> > height or flash). Well maybe I'm not talking the OLD
> > Boston Celtics, but
> > at least the 80's team that somehow always made us
> > choose "Brooce"
> > Springstein as our college road trip
> > music-of-choice. Okay, sorry I
> > brought that up.
> > 
> > Look, when it comes to comparisons of Walker vs
> > Master Ron maybe this
> > time we ARE nuts. When I discovered that Boston
> > Globe readers (joined by
> > such luminaries as Jim Rome, Way Ray and Jackie "Egg
> > McMuffinface") vote
> > by an overwhelming 3:1 margin not merely that the
> > Boston Celtics "should
> > have traded Antoine" instead of Ron Mercer, but more
> > importantly that
> > the Denver Nuggets robbed us blind, it honestly
> > gives me pause.
> > 
> > Maybe I'm just a blowhard, no-nothing, get-a-lifer,
> > divan pomme-de-terre
> > (couch potato). Maybe "the most knowledgeable
> > basketball fans on earth"
> > ARE right in the end. White makes right!! (by a 3:1
> > margin apparently).
> > Seriously, it makes me wonder if the Celts did the
> > right thing.
> > 
> > --------
> > 
> > 
> 
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