Re: FW: It's only a matter of time before Iverson departs

[Eggcentric@xxxxxxx]

< I think you'd be shocked if you polled NBA GMs on a Pierce-Peja 
trade. > - Berry 

Mark - Peja has had a great season and Pierce has certainly been
disappointing at times.   Thought you and others might be interested to 
know that Peja is presently ranked #2 overall in the Yahoo Fantasy 
Team rankings, while Pierce has recently dropped to 11th mostly due to 
his FG% and TO's.

Still, I would not trade Pierce for Peja, at least not yet.   I truly feel 
bad 
for Paul and empathize with why he just might be a wee bit discouraged. 
While correct in noting that Peja didn't have Webber with him when 
he put up these numbers, he certainly has still been nurtured in a stable 
environment surrounded with talents like Bibby, Miller, Christie, and Divac 
prior to Webber's recent return,   Meanwhile, scapegoat Pierce has
in many ways been the biggest victim of the Ainge turmoil as well as
our team's perennial lack of talent/depth during his entire career - 
including this season.   

It's not easy being double and triple-teamed game after game, year 
after year, while realizing no matter how much effort you expend that 
your team is going nowhere.   Give Pierce a worthy surrounding cast, 
a realistic cause, a hope, a reason to go to war night after night, and 
no one would do it better.   The heart is a lonely hunter and I have no 
doubt a reinvigorated Paul could quickly be considered one of the 
league's most passionate team leaders by example.   

As for the Yahoo Fantasy League stats - the rankings of this particular 
league are based on each player's performance in FG%, FT%, 3PTM, PTS, 
REB, AST, ST, BLK, and TO.   The more games each plays, the better his 
chances for a higher ranking, which is why a player like Kobe (who has 
missed 17 games), is only ranked 43rd.

Here is a list of the Yahoo TOP 15 RANKED PLAYERS and a second list 
of how our Celt players are presently ranked.        

TOP 15
Rank               Games played
1-    Garnett           67 
2-    Stojakovic           65 
3-    McGrady          64 
4-    Marion                64 
5-    Davis (Baron)      60 
6-    Kirilenko           63   
7-    Wallace (Ben)     67 
8-    Nowitzki           61 
9-    Marshall          66   
10- Marbury           66 
11- Pierce                68   
12- Bibby                66   
13- Finley                61 
14- Kidd                60   
15- Cassell           66 

CELTICS
Rank               Games played
11-    Pierce          68           
77-    Blount          68 
90-    Davis               65 
101- Welsch          67 
110- McCarty          63
180- Mihm                62
214- Atkins          50
217- LaFrentz          17
227- Banks               67
278- Stewart          20
348- Hunter          26
363 - Jones          32
459 - Perkins          8