News and notes

[Jeff White]

Al's probably just being realistic, though he could have phrased that
better.  I'm guessing he won't be able to do much work with his legs until
training camp.

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Berry, Mark S" <berrym at BATTELLE.ORG>
To: "The Boston Celtics Mailing List" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: RE: News and notes


> Quick takes:
>
> Jefferson ... I loved the quote from him about using training camp to
> play his way into shape. Perfect. Just what I wanted to hear.
>
> Tony Allen ... He didn't have the gun, but he allegedly pointed out the
> target and told his buddy to shoot him. If that's the way it went down
> -- and that's still an "if" -- then there isn't much difference in my
> mind.
>
> Telfair ... Nothing new there, and anytime they use Telfair and Marbury
> in the same sentence, I get nervous ... but I really do hope it works
> out.
>
> Mark
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: celtics-bounces at igtc.com [mailto:celtics-bounces at igtc.com] On
> Behalf Of Kim Malo
> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:56 AM
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> Subject: News and notes
>
> 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/jeff
> erson_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/jeff
> erson_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..
>
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