More news and notes

[Jeff White]

Feel-good story on Leon Powe:

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/08/17/SPGJIKJQ731.DTL

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From: "Kim Malo" <kmalo17 at verizon.net>
To: "Cs eList" <celtics at igtc.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: More news and notes


> Sigh, this is part 2 of why I hate trade talk - it's become all that
> anyone can talk about. If there were serious rumors out there the
> list would be abuzz and nothing else seems to be worth noticing...
>
> Today's Herald clarified that Tony's continuance is because the judge
> is
> ill.http://celtics.bostonherald.com/celtics/view.bg?articleid=152891
> and that he'll likely be shuttling back and forth between Chicago and
> Boston into the season. Sigh. Don't they have any other judges? And
> whatever happened to the right to a speedy trial...  This needs to
> get resolved so both Tony and the Cs know where they stand. And I'd
> still like to hear that someone, anyone else is even this close to
> coming to court.
>
> Interview with Danny in the latest Celtics Beat has some interesting
things
>
http://www.nba.com/celtics/news/ainge-interview081406.html?from=beat&text=true
> Of course this is the inhouse not exactly hard hitting investigative
> reporting version of an interview and Danny wasn't exactly speaking
> off the cuff, but still, some key points:
>
> Wally is supposedly claiming his knee is better than it's been in a
> long time, with Danny having with him in Doc's tourney. This may
> actually be true - the bone on bone has been there a while, so it's
> not like it's ever going to be perfect, but that doesn't mean it
> couldn't actually be a lot better than it was through things like
> getting rid of debris getting caught in the joint and improving the
> tracking for the remaining joint.
>
> Reminds us that Al's rehab is ahead of schedule, which was also
> mentioned in the Herald article, despite Al's working into shape in
> camp comment.
>
> Perk's doing very well and getting final approval to go back to full
> workout this week.
>
> Sounds like he is still working to deal and trying to leave all
> possibilities open since he says that Grant will definitely not play
> for us this season, but he hasn't been released either. Only reason
> for that, since he only has the one year left, is to have him
> available as a possible option to include in a deal to make the numbers
work.
>
> Kim
>
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