Re: NBA Marketers get what they wanted

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@nycap.rr.com>]

Right on, it's so obvious TV wants a 5 game series regardless of the
outcome. I wasn't sure about this game. It's tough to come into an opponent
down 2. Their stats were above season averages. We will win Wednesday.

DanF
----- Original Message -----
From: " Michael A. DiZio" <" mdizio"@rcn.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 12:46 AM
Subject: NBA Marketers get what they wanted


>          Nba front office guys are relieved tonight that poster boy A.I
> is still in the hunt.  It took three games of ridiculous disparity in
> calls to do it, but the team and player with the largest amount of
> jersey sales among all 29 teams is still alive. Whew!!
>          Check out the damn promos TNT and NBC use to promote the
> playoffs. Among all the dunks and other highlights is nary a green
> jersey. Not even a nanosecond of Pierce or Walker even though The C's
> are the third seed in the East. The Celtics are the non-persons of the
> NBA, missing from the hype like unwanted apparatchiks in Stalin's
> Russia.
>          Go ahead Green, end it Wednesday despite the referees, and
> confound the Madison Avenue morons who sell individuals like toothpaste,
> but don't  know anything about team basketball.
>
> Michael A. DiZio