RE: Vescey on NBA-TV regarding a conversation with Pierce

["David J. Boutte" <dajubo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why not believe it? If any of us were in Pierce's shoes, we'd probably feel the same way.

-David

-----Original Message-----
From: Shawn Niles <shizzjr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Feb 17, 2004 8:55 PM
To: ubiquitous_am_i@xxxxxxxxx, celtics@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Vescey on NBA-TV regarding a conversation with Pierce

Also a through and through NY guy. I will never believe a thing he says 
about Boston.


>From: Ryan W <ubiquitous_am_i@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: celtics@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Vescey on NBA-TV regarding a conversation with Pierce
>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 17:01:24 -0800 (PST)
>
>Vescey made some pretty interesting comments tonight
>on NBA-TV.  First, apparently Peter has talked to Paul
>recently and Paul is very concerned with the team's
>direction.  He told Peter he was wondering how old he
>would be once Danny's 'masterplan' came to fruition
>(specifically asking Vescey how old Jordan was when he
>started winning his championships).  Paul also openly
>questioned (according to Vescey, remember) why Mihm
>and Davis weren't starting and playing more (at which
>point Vescey interjected that the proposed Mihm/Mills
>for Howard/somebody else was another head-scratcher in
>the sense that once again Danny was trading expiring
>contracts for long-term contracts in a deal where the
>talent exchanged is either a wash or slightly
>disadvantageous from the C's perspective...). Paul
>also made the statement to Vescey that he thought the
>Celtics had perpetrated three of the worst trades in
>the past 20 years by trading Joe Johnson in the
>Rogers/Delk trade, by trading Kenny/Vitaly in the
>Baker deal, and by trading Antoine this past October.
>All in all, Vescey said he was surprised about the
>tone of Paul's comments; from reading what the local
>papers report, Vescey had formerly been under the
>impression that Paul was taking the changes well.  Not
>so anymore, Vescey concluded.
>
>Of course, this entire post has a caveat in the form
>of Peter Vescey, noted purveyor of falsehoods and
>half-truths.  Nonetheless, very interesting.
>
>Ryan
>
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