Re: Leon SMith

["John Lyell" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

Seems similar to the problems Lamar Odom had right after highschool.
Hopefully not a Dimtrius underwood but worth a small1-2 year contract.




----- Original Message -----
From: "David A Wickerham" <aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu>
To: <Bos3332@aol.com>
Cc: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 9:07 AM
Subject: Re: Leon SMith


>
> I'm not a big fan of bringing a troubled kid like Leon aboard until he
> gets the professional help he needs.  However, Antoine does know him and
> had some nice things to say about him when he was making all the wrong
> kind of news this fall.  I hope our love of basketball doesn't come at the
> expense of this kid's mental health.
>
> On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 Bos3332@aol.com wrote:
>
> > Something for the masses to ponder is that Leon Smith will be a free
agent
> > soon and on the market. No team could use an athletic big kid like us.
Yes,
> > there is a history there but I think his salary cap numbers still will
fall
> > on the Mavericks. He has come up through the adidas program where
Wallace,
> > our GM has a good relationship with Sonny vaccaro. Somebody will grab
him and
> > it mine as well be
> > us. It's clear we need several more players to be really good and this
could
> > be a start. The kid is from Chicago and maybe Walker, hmm, could take
him
> > under his wing. 6-10 and the wingspan of a condor. Iron, give it some
thought
> > before you bellow out"cram it". Don't you remember offering that as a
> > response to one of our jayhawk posters some time ago.
> >
> >
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>   Dave Wickerham
>   aw623@freenet.buffalo.edu
>   Saratoga Springs, NY
>
>