Re: YES!!

["j.hironaka" <j.hironaka@unesco.org>]

At 12:11 07/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Well, that's the crux of the matter right there.  It may be painful to
>root for the 76ers, but better that than to have to hear about how
>this Laker team was the most dominant team of all time for the next four
>decades or so.  At this point, I'd cheer for Bill Laimbeer himself if he
>were on the 76ers.  (Well, maybe not for Laimbeer.  But certainly for
>James Edwards, say.)
>
>Marc Pierce

         Can anyone dig up the Sixers and Celtics rosters on the day Larry 
Brown and Pitinochio took over? I'm through bashing Pitino, but the 
different trajectory the Sixers have taken actually offers hope that 
Bostonians can talk with a straight face about one day getting back to the 
Finals again, now with Poultrino's headless chicken outbreak experiment 
finally over. I'd love for the Celtics to get a piece of these Fakers while 
Phil Jackson, Kobe and Shaq are still in their prime. We've been so blessed 
in the past. I'd wager that more than 50% of us on this entire Celtics list 
were born on a year that the Boston Celtics won an NBA championship and 
raised a banner. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case for my one-year-old 
son but I can always have more where that came from and hope the Celts 
deliver on their end. ;-)

Joe

p.s. One of the guys who works for my unit has a father who was once an 
assistant coach for Larry Brown, and Dean Smith before that. I always 
thought that was very cool. He's met all these people many times etc. 
Obviously we are rooting for Larry Brown and Iverson to pull off the miracle.

If there were always say a three-day spacing between every game, I bet 
Iverson would be averaging 45 points per game and you wouldn't have had all 
the 7-game series. That guy gets so wailed on from game to game...it's 
incredible he keeps bouncing back.

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