Re: Vin Baker

["Orion" <johnlyell@hotmail.com>]

I could live with moving V and maybe one the swing men McCarty or Williams
etc and ending up with Baker and Shammond.



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Subject: Fwd: Vin Baker


> In a message dated 2/14/02 11:27:46 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> francis@ai.mit.edu writes:
>
>
> > The Seattle Times and Sports Network are reporting the Celtics as one of
> > three teams (the others being Pacers and Knicks) being interested in
> > Vin Baker, although one article seems to be a paraphrased version of the
> > other.
> >
> > http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sonics/134404446_soni14.html
> >
> > http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&
> > page=nba/news/ACN1934351.htm
>
>
>
>
> This is very interesting given the timing coincides with the reported
trade
> discussions with Utah for Russell in the Herald and Globe. Not long ago,
> there was in the Herald, I believe, a reference to the fact that Utah and
the
> C's had held prior discussions re: Utah's interest in V. Ostertag is in
> Sloan's doghouse so far now that I'm wondering if the current talks
between
> the two clubs over Russell have also included the possibility of the deal
> being expanded to include Ostertag and V?
>
> Given the fact that the C's would still be overloaded at the wing
positions
> and coupled with these two articles that Francis cites, could the interest
in
> Bryon Russell actually be only to in turn reroute him to Seattle as part
of a
> deal for Baker? Seattle wants to keep Rashard Lewis and they could be
looking
> to create cap room to re-sign him. There also was some prior interest by
the
> C's in Shammond Williams.
>
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> The Seattle Times and Sports Network are reporting the Celtics as one of
> three teams (the others being Pacers and Knicks) being interested in
> Vin Baker, although one article seems to be a paraphrased version of the
> other.
>
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sonics/134404446_soni14.html
>
>
http://www.sportsnetwork.com/default.asp?c=sportsnetwork&page=nba/news/ACN19
34351.htm