Antoine

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Yeah, really.  I hate it when guys are smiling and
mugging for the camera.  (Chris Webber, Magic). My
kind of players (Larry, Chief) are constantly
scowling.  ON another note, I just saw this on the
wire.  I hope it doesn't have any significance for us,
but you never know:

  Clippers Set Dates for Taylor Contract Extension
According to the LA Times the Clippers Will Begin
Talking Contract Extension With Maurice Taylor After
Labor Day. Contract-extension talks between the
Clippers and David Falk, agent for third-year forward
Maurice Taylor, will not begin until after Labor Day,
according to Elgin Baylor, vice president of
basketball operations. Negotiations were planned this
week but Falk requested the delay. Falk is expected to
seek the maximum allowed under league rules for
Taylor, a six-year extension for roughly $72 million.

Is something in the cards?  Taylor had said that he
wouldn't return to the Clippers after this year.  He's
talented but it's still not value in my opinion. 
Antoine may be possewhipped, but none of these guys
brings what he does to the table.  Antoine has star
ability, star character.  I don't think I've ever
heard of another player like that being discussed in
connection with him in a  trade rumor.


--- j.hironaka@unesco.org wrote:
> It reminds me of the time Red Auerbach got ejected
> from an NBA Old-timers game in
> the 1980's. I know it can sound like I'm condoning
> Toine's behavior, but we all
> know that the guy plays to win whenever he's on a
> basketball court (he just
> doesn't yet know HOW to win) no matter how boorish
> his strangely single-minded,
> zoned-out, tazmanian devil, court persona may look.
> 
> As long as someone's keeping score of a game, I
> personally don't think it's
> "supposed to be for fun." I don't think Larry Bird
> would have been as successful
> if treated games or practices that way, although
> hopefully he would have shown
> better sportsmanship in front of kids. Who knows?
> Larry Bird was "in the game".
> You could have shouted insults at him all night and
> he probably wouldn't have even
> heard or noticed you. Bird wasn't out there to
> please the fans or mug for the
> cameras.
> 
> 
> -----
> 
> > >            "summer tournaments are supposed to
> be fun, for the love of the
> > >            game, right? someone needs to tell
> antoine walker, because i
> > >don't
> > >            think he knows. last weekend while
> attending a pro-am
> > >tournament in
> > >            chicago, i witnessed the worst
> display of sportsmanship i have
> > >ever
> > >            seen. antoine walker, of boston
> celtics fame, made a complete and
> > >            utter * of himself in front of
> hundreds of people, half of
> > >whom were
> > >            kids. those same kids who idolize him
> as being a successful nba
> > >            player from "the chi." anyway, in the
> third quarter, after being
> > >            fouled by guard paul macpherson (a
> freshman at depaul this
> > >season),
> > >            'toine became heated at the ref for
> missing the call. the ref
> > >then
> > >            called a tech on 'toine, spurring a
> string of insults from him,
> > >            which ultimately led to his being
> ejected from the game! a pro
> > >being
> > >            ejected from the pro am game! and if
> that weren't bad enough, he
> > >            kept badgering the ref with
> profanities, getting in the ref's
> > >face,
> > >            trying to intimidate him. 'toine is
> what, 6'8, while the ref
> > >is 5'5,
> > >            feel me? being from chicago, i show
> much love for chicago area
> > >            ballplayers, but antoine walker, and
> i'm speaking for myself
> > >only,
> > >            sucks!" --leslie allen, chi
> 
> 

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