Re: Trade for Fortson?

["Jaime Salud Castillo, Jr." <jaims@philonline.com>]

Fortson's strong but a tweener for a power forward.  I think he is
realistically only 6'5 or even 6'4 without socks.

No, we don't need him!
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Wang <awang@mit.edu>
To: celtics@igtc.com <celtics@igtc.com>
Date: Saturday, May 01, 1999 4:04 PM
Subject: Trade for Fortson?


>Has anyone seen Fortson play? Can he man the power forward position
>for the Celtics? He's put up some pretty impressive stats but for
>a lousy team. With LaFrentz and McDyess manning the power positions,
>Denver may not want to give him big bucks to be a backup. So perhaps
>a trade of Mercer for Fortson and Keon Clark is a possibility. Mercer
>moves into their small forward position which is weak, and Mercer and
>Billups are reunited. Their lineup becomes Van Exel, Billups, Mercer,
>McDyess, LaFrentz.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Alex
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