Re: Why was Larry Bird out of the picture???

[snoopy1@xxxxxxx]

No, I think it was two reasons, one leading to the other.  First, I think 
there would have been snowball fights in hell before Gaston sold to any 
group including Larry Bird.  He's tried before.  That leads to reason 2, 
which is that he is committed to getting an expansion deal in Charlotte as 
a result of Gaston's failure to behave like a reasoning creature, which 
takes him out of the running for being in on this deal.

It's not impossible that if the Charlotte deal falls through (unlikely in 
my opinion, unless something goes drastically wrong), he might join as one 
of the investors.  But I think he wanted more of a control in ownership, 
and with the new guys obviously planning to buy up all the outstanding 
stock, that's unlikely in Boston.

Snoopy the Celtics Beagle

At 10:38 AM 9/28/02 +0800, Jaims wrote:

> didn't Bird get any chance of having his group bid for the team?  Is he so
> turned off on buying the team now?
> just too bad...
>
> I wish these new guys have some basketball senses to make the team better if
> they'll tinker with it and aren't only geeks that're overly rich!
>
> Jaims