RE: Ainge Watch Ainge Watch Ainge Watch

["John Lyell" <jlyell@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I like what I have seen of Turiaf. A brian grant type player



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This is your official "Ainge Watch" station....

- Ainge called "Worst GM" since Michael Jordan by Kevin Blackstone
of Dallas Morning News

- O'Donnell of the Chi Sun Times sees Phil Jackson as a candidate for next
Celtics coach.

- Keeping track of Ainge's whereabouts, as he prepares for the upcoming
draft.  He checked out Rony Turiaf (could be a late first-rounder) and Blake
Stepp
(early to mid-second round) of Gonzaga the other night;
was at Central Maine Institute the other day, spent the week before at
South Kent Prep in Connecticut, possibly cutting a deal with Dorell Wright,
who's supposedly declaring for the draft. Very odd, in that no one and I
mean no one,
has him in the first round, and it's extremely unlikely he's entering the
draft, unless he's
been promised to be chosen in the first round.

A couple weeks back, Ainge was observing Duke and NC, hopefully
watching SOA Player Sheldon Williams, a PF in the mold of Boozer
and Brand.

Oh yeah, and the Celtics are scouting
Immanuel McElroy of  Gary  in the CBA.

Ray