RE: Excerpt from a A. Jamison article

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I am sending this (and the previous one) to Antoine and Pierce at their
sites.
This is Antoine's:
http://www.athletesdirect.com/AthleteDirect/ad/groupa/ad_homepage2.jsp?ATH_I
D=030006

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jim Hill [SMTP:jahill@leasingservice.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 30, 2000 1:49 PM
> To:	Celtics-Talk List
> Subject:	Excerpt from a A. Jamison article
> 
> "The Warriors' public relations staff boasts that Jamison's 10-point
> scoring
> increase from his first year in the league to his second was the largest
> of
> any NBA player. Jamison doesn't care. Want to know why he's been spending
> long days this summer at the team's practice facility? Because he's
> ashamed
> of what he did last summer.
> 
> "I only did a half-job last year and then when I got the opportunity to
> play
> I saw what could have happened if I had done a better job as far as
> keeping
> my body in shape. If I would have done a better job, maybe I wouldn't have
> had the injury. Maybe my ankle wouldn't have tweaked or I wouldn't have
> run
> out of gas in the fourth quarter. A lot of things have opened my eyes."
> 
> And he averaged 19.6 points and 8.3 rebounds per game last season.
> 
> This was the kind of article I was hoping to read about Walker and Battie
> in
> particular.  Admit their personal, basketball related, errors and spend
> the
> off season working so as not to repeat them again this year.
> 
> Instead we get a player whining that "his team" discussed him in a
> trade(s)
> so he stopped following the training schedule he was given to make HIM a
> better basketball player.
> 
> Sigh.............
> 
> <Jim
>