Re: Classy Larry

[Kim <kimmalo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh it was emphatically Danny. With DJ sitting next to him leaning as far away as he could as if to avoid being collateral damage, with a big grin on his face. I don't often think of Egg during a game, but I did then. Most people mistakenly don't think ML was smart enough to have been as actively evil as he was, and Pitino's becoming such a public enemy deflected most of the remaining enmity people have towards ML. As you can tell, not with me.

Anyway, I don't think that's true about Max thinking better of himself than anyone else in the Cs family. Red's the one there's been a problem with the past few years and that was the only awkward part of the ceremony IMO. Larry vocalized similar problems with Kevin without that being a broader issue about others not thinking as well of Kevin as he did of himself. While I expect Larry didn't appear because he didn't want to take any of the limelight from Max on his night, which tends to happen when Larry makes an appearance, even if someone else is being honored. Max is one of the people who has commented on that fact in the past.

Kim

-----Original Message-----
From: Kestutis Kveraga <Kestutis.Kveraga@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Dec 15, 2003 10:46 PM
To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Classy Larry

May wrote in the Sunday Globe that Max's habit of taking less important games
off was just killing Larry. He could never stand for that. Maybe that's why he
didn't bother to show up and publicly embellish his opinion of Max. I also
didn't think that Red went overboard with praise for Max.  Cedric obviously
thinks better of himself than pretty much anybody else in the Celtics family,
which creates an "appreciation gap". Add to that the trade, and the booing of
Ainge (or was it ML?), and the fairly lukewarm crowd, and this did not exactly
go smoothly for him.  All in all, the ceremony had an awkward feeling to it. 
Kestas