Re: make or break time...

["Cecil Wright" <cecil@hfx.eastlink.ca>]

So if you don't agree, why say that the NBA wants to have LA and NY/NJ in
the playoffs?

Cecil


----- Original Message -----
From: <Douglas342@AOL.com>
To: <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: make or break time...


>     Sorry, but I don't see this "the NBA wants XXXXX to be in the
playoffs"
> stuff.  The NBA is big business, and big business is, in part,  the sales
> business.  The NBA sells its product.  They can sell Iverson both as
hip-hop
> gangsta symbol or as very talented and hardworking basketball player.
They
> can sell the untattoed/stabbing victim Pierce, the frenetic Waltah, the
tall
> Mutombo (sp?).  They can sell the story of the Celtics returning to the
> playoffs with their unmatched history.  They can sell the Nets, former ABA
> team made good, or Jason Kidd, reformed from a life of domestic violence.
> They can sell Reggie Miller, still making miracles.
>     They don't much care; the one thing they want more than anything else,
> though, is LA andor NY/NJ, the biggest TV markets still in the playoffs.
> Boston and Philly are medium markets.  Chicago and Houston are out of it.
> "You tell me what is is, boss, and I'll sell it."
>    It's nervous time...  Celts by 12!!