Re: Quote in Aldridge column

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

***Obie-won***, now that's the greatest.

DanF
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From: "bird" <birdwl@earthlink.net>
To: <Celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Sunday, May 26, 2002 12:58 AM
Subject: Quote in Aldridge column


> Ya gotta love Obie-won.
>
> Bird
>
> from
> http://espn.go.com/nba/playoffs2002/columns/aldridge_david/1385375.html
>
> ... Celtics GM Chris Wallace recalls when he knew the team turned the
> corner. "We had lost four or five in a row, and we went to Miami," Wallace
> said. "And it was one of those games that we won, and then we gave it
back,
>   and we won it again, and we lost it, and we finally won it at the end
> when Paul (Pierce) went in and scored at the end (on a dunk over Alonzo
> Mourning as time expired). And I saw (coach Jim O'Brien) after the game
> and I said, 'That was a really, really big win for us. If we had lost that
> game, we might not have been able to recover.' And he looked at me and
> said, 'That's the stupidest (bleeping) thing I ever heard. It's one out of
> 82. We'll be fine.'"