Re: Wallace on Miami talk

[Josh Ozersky <josh_ozersky@yahoo.com>]

Thanks for reporting this, in these news-starved
times.  I guess he didn't say anything about the
Mercer situation.  Are they not allowed to talk to him
until after the playoffs or something?  


--- Sherry & Hart  wrote:
> Chris Wallace was on the radio with Hank Goldberg
> today and had some
> interesting things to say.
> 	1. Celtics will probably not be heavily involved in
> the free agent
> signing due to cap problems unless someone can be
> signed under the
> exempt rule.
> 	2. Celtics realize with their 2nd round pick, there
> is not much to
> expect, but will use it to draft the best defensive
> player available
> unless somehow the Gods look down on them and grant
> them a top 3 pick.
> 	3. It doesn't seem that a trade is in the offering,
> unless there is a
> high draft pick ALSO involved.
> 	4. After watching the playoffs, so far he feels
> that there are very few
> players who ask for the ball in crunch time. He
> named Malone/Stockton,
> Sprewell, Miller and Duncan as the crunch time
> players. He also said
> Antoine is a player who wants the ball when the game
> is on the line.
> 	5 They feel very confident that with a full
> practice and exhibition
> season, they will be much better than people will
> probably give them
> credit for and that they could improve as much as
> the sixers did this
> year. By the way, I got the impression that the
> Sixers would be the
> class of the East next year.
> 	6. The team with all their cap money available is
> the Bulls, but he
> felt that there is not a good crop of free agents,
> which will hurt them
> to improve that much. He said with the advent of the
> new agreement, you
> have pretty much seen the end of the big stars
> leaving their original
> teams since their original team is the one that can
> pay the most and
> that will add stability to the league.
> 
> Hart
> 
> 

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