Re: Celtics column for bskball.com, RIP Walter Dukes

[Douglas342@AOL.com]

   Walter has one more year, I think, and really isn't that expensive, 
although even his meager salary ($3M?) is too much.  A real key is Battie, 
who was, as you point out, really coming on when he went down.  If he 
continues to progress, what do you do with Blount and Vitaly?  Maybe Blount 
stays as a bargain basement third stringer?  VP won't go anywhere with that 
salary.  But Anderson is the real albatross here.  Tell me, oh 
optimist-for-the-moment, might a really healthy Kenny Anderson help this 
team?  Have we even seen a really healthy Anderson in the post-Pitino era?  
The guy can shoot, giving us (another?) third scorer to go along with Stith; 
he is a veteran; he might bring intangibles/chemistry, although I have no 
clue whatever about that.
   Finally, for the old time fans, I saw a small piece in the paper that 
Walter Dukes died.  He was one of the first seven-foot centers in the league 
and played mostly for the Pistons during a career that spanned 1955-1962.  
The really sad part of the story was that he was found in bed and had been 
dead for a month.  He was 70.