Re: Scott not a fan of Boston...feeling's mutual, Byron

["Dan Forant" <dforant1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scotty can't leave a sleeping dog lie huh? He may be in for real misery now.
Just uncalled for remarks opening up old wounds. Some of our fans may have
been juiced up but not shot up as in LA. Scotty has the series won. He'd be
smart to curtail rubbing other stuff in. I know what the Bird era Celts
would do. They wouldn't let their town get demeaned like this in the press.

Here's hoping the Celts win game 3 and gloat all the way. NJ has nothing to
be proud of. They won 2 games they could have lost. Where's OB's balls? Is
he a gelding? First order of business if Danny does take over is help OB
pack.

DanF

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen Beauregard" <sb@maine.rr.com>
To: "celtics list" <celtics@igtc.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 8:40 AM
Subject: Scott not a fan of Boston...feeling's mutual, Byron


> Scott not a fan of Boston
>
>
> By Peter May, Globe Staff, 5/8/2003
>
> AST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - New Jersey Nets coach Byron Scott took on the
> basketball fans of Boston yesterday, using such words as ''abusive'' and
> ''hostile'' and ''juiced up'' to describe those who attend Celtics games
at
> the FleetCenter.
>
>
>
> ''These fans. They're very cruel and they can be crazy,'' Scott said in an
> interview on WFAN Radio in New York. ''They come into the game pretty
juiced
> up. They've had their share of beers already before the game has started.
They
> can get pretty hostile.''
>
> The remarks came as Scott was being asked about last year's visit to
Boston by
> the Nets during the Eastern Conference finals. The fans chanted ''wife
> beater'' at Jason Kidd and also directed comments toward Kidd's wife,
Joumana,
> and their son, TJ. It got to the point where Joumana and TJ Kidd went home
> after Game 3.
>
> ''The fans were getting very abusive,'' Scott said. ''Being that I played
up
> there a bunch of times in the [NBA] Finals, I know how abusive they can be
> because they were abusive to the Lakers' wives when we played.''
>
> Scott said he has advised his players not to have their families attend
the
> games in Boston.
>
> ''My wife was talking about it the other day, maybe going up. I said,
`Babe,
> you can't go up there.' Not to Boston,'' Scott said. ''I think most of the
> players and their wives understand. It's a tough town to play in. It's a
tough
> arena. The people are crazy, to say the least. They're really into the
game.
> They're going to mess with you any way they can to take your minds off the
> game.''
>
> Scott also touched on the long-held perception that Boston is a difficult
> place to play for African-Americans. Asked if that perception was still
valid,
> Scott said, ''I don't think we're way past that. I don't think you [the
> talk-show hosts] are out of line for saying that. A lot of black players
feel
> that way. We did in the '80s. And I know in the '80s, at least some of
their
> black players still couldn't go to certain places. And that was their own
> players. Some cities or organizations or whatever you want to say haven't
> caught up to the year 2000 yet.''
>
> He added, ''I think it's still a part of that up there. They're not very
good
> fans. You can have a great tradition and have a great fan without being
crazy
> and hostile. I think Sacramento has the best fans in basketball. They ring
> cowbells and all that. They don't get outrageous like the fans in
Boston.''
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve