The old shell game.

[JB]

On Jun 12, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Berry, Mark S wrote:

> What are everyone's thoughts on Peter Vecsey's bombshell that the
> Celtics are shopping Pierce? That one caught me completely off guard. I
> thought he was pretty much untouchable at this point. Before you bash
> Vecsey, remember he seems to have a source with the Celts. He knew 
> about
> the Pierce-to-Portland talks before anyone last year.

	MarkB

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	Either Chicago has talked about moving Heinrich, or it's just Portland 
waving around; Telfair and Randolph, to no avail. I don't see any need 
or interest in Villenueva.
	My only other thought, shedding  any  possibilities, is that Pierce 
and his agent have seen through C's management's thinly veiled 
subterfuge of extending Pierce two years early, to be able to back off 
him at age  33 instead of 35.
	Perhaps what we have here is a failure of negotiations.

			JB