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

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

See, Mark, I can see people being ambivalent about the
trade.  It's when they call it lopsided for Denver
that suggests dementia to me.

--- "Berry, Mark S" <mberry@journalink.com> wrote:
> 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
> > ----------
> > 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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