News and notes

[Kim Malo]

Dunno if everyone checks the Boston papers for Cs news, so just to 
flag a few things:

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2006/08/13/jefferson_riding_out_rehab/
Jefferson apparently had bone chips in the bad ankle, causing at 
least some of the ongoing problems (bone bruises on their own can 
genuinely take months to heal too) - no, whoever told him to stop 
whining about it hurting back during summer league, it wasn't just whining.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2006/08/13/jefferson_riding_out_rehab/?page=2
Tony Allen's legal status apparently stays in limbo a bit longer. 
Wonder who asked for the continuance and why. Looking to settle in 
return for withdrawing charges or something? That's about the only 
reason I can see that it makes sense for Tony, who surely wants to 
get things resolved so he can either move on with his career or at 
least know where he stands. Tony was dumb that night and fairly 
clearly was guilty of something, but I've found it suspicious all 
along that the only one about whom there's even a whisper of legal 
action is the one with money. This despite the fact that things are 
supposedly on film. Maybe there are other cases going on, but none of 
the reports have sounded that way, and after all however dumb he was, 
Tony wasn't the one with the gun.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2006/08/13/tall_order/
Dunno if anyone knew that Dana had given up an assistant coaching job 
to take over as Boston's new rec director. Local guy who grew up in 
the neighborhoods and knows what it's like.

http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/articles/2006/08/13/home_schooled/
Longish Shira profile of Telfair. Such things are what they are and 
Shira's not the one to make it controversial, but it's still worth 
reading to get some ideas about his perspective on some things and 
for bits like the fairly universal insistence that despite some 
claims about his big head he's not running around with an entourage 
full of trouble..