RE: Yaaawn! Time to wake up and get ready for Celtics excitement!

["Odegaard, Greg M." <GMOdegaa@rmc.com>]

This portion of Jon's message is most brilliant.  We have forgotten to a
degree that some on this list wanted to take Battie over Billups.  I
remember some saying take Mercer at 3 and Battie if he is there at 6, or
Battie at 3 and hope Mercer drops to 6 under this scenario.

Considering what it cost to get Trav, nothing, we in affect get Battie for
nothing as well.  

The draft of the decade for sure;

Mercer at #6
Battie at #5
Kenny Anderson at #3
and don't forget we dumped Dee's anchor of a contract with Chauncy

RP kicked butt that year, and we are the beneficiaries for good.

Celtics; Kickin butt in the New Millennium,
Ode

-----Original Message-----
From: jmc@ptc.com [mailto:jmc@ptc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 1999 5:07 PM
To: Celtics@igtc.com
Cc: jmc@luzon.ptc.com
Subject: Yaaawn! Time to wake up and get ready for Celtics excitement!

I remember wanting the Celtics to take Battie as the next best choice after
Duncan, but they took Billups instead.  What a disappointment that was!  I
thought Battie was more of what the C's needed than even Van Horn.   I
frequently consoled myself that at least they got Mercer with the #6 pick.

Now they'll have Battie anyway, and Billups got transformed into Kenny 
Anderson, so they'll have all the players I had hoped for from that draft 
anyway, plus Kenny Anderson to boot!