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

[OzerskyJA <OzerskyJA@cmog.org>]

I think legitimately, it's possible that a healthy Kenny Anderson
could be a major part of a successful Celtics team.  But it's not
enough for him to score for that to happen; he has to get into
pushing the ball, distributing, and other things that are not his
favorite things to do.  Using the offseason wisely to build up his
body and his wind would be a great start.

Josh Ozersky	
Marketing Communications Specialist 
Corning Museum of Glass

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Douglas342@aol.com [SMTP:Douglas342@aol.com]
> Sent:	Friday, March 16, 2001 3:26 PM
> To:	OzerskyJA@cmog.org; celtics@igtc.com
> Subject:	Re: Celtics column for bskball.com,  RIP Walter Dukes
> 
>    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.