Re: media quote

["R. Bentz Kirby" <bocelts@usit.net>]

Douglas342@aol.com wrote:

> >From the always readable Mark Heisler, LA Times:
>     Some incarnations, it goes like that: Boston's Rick Pitino, who traded
> Ron Mercer last summer for Danny Fortson, traded Fortson to Toronto last
> week, caught flak for it in the local papers--then had to take Fortson back
> when Alvin Williams failed his physical. In the meantime, Fortson told
> Toronto writers that in Boston, "the ship is kind of sinking pretty fast." .
> . . And Pitino, pressed for a commitment on Antoine Walker: "Without a shadow
> of a doubt, on Feb. 25, Antoine Walker will be a Celtic. He will be a Celtic
> for the whole year." What Pitino means is: As soon as summer comes and
> Walker's salary-cap restrictions are off, it's him or me.
>

It must be great to be a writer and to be able to just make up something and
write it as fact.  I suspect that Pitino has no intentions of trading Walker.
And that Walker is who the team is being built around.   What evidence is there
of this?

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