Thanks to everyone on the list for the last 10 years!

[Kestas]

Douglas342 at aol.com wrote:
> I remember going to see the Celtics-Clippers in LA in Antoine's rookie  year. 
>  I had just joined this list or its predecessor and had no idea what  I was 
> in store for.  They introduced the lineups, and I turned to the guy  next to me 
> and said "I'm a Celtics fan, but who ARE these guys?"  It was  Hamilton and 
> Szabo and Conlon and lord knows who else.  I hope we can soon  say we've come a 
> loooonnnnggg way,.
>
>   
Hamilton is a tragicomical story. As Keith Glass (an NBA agent, mostly 
to 7-foot white stiffs) describes it in his book, he was the least 
motivated, most frustrating player he had ever met or represented. 
Because he was 7-4 or something and talented, NBA teams kept taking 
chances on him - indeed, going to extraordinary lengths to make sure he 
adhered to his diet and showed up for practices and individual workouts. 
All he had to do to become a multimillionaire was just to show up and do 
what he's told. But more often than not he just wouldn't bother. Didn't 
feel like it. His favorite activity was hanging out in his mother's 
apartment, eating massive quantities of junk food and doing absolutely 
nothing.

After he burned one or two teams, the Celtics became interested. Glass 
warned the Celtics about his client, but they wanted him anyway. Every 
GM and coach thought he was the one to get through to Hamilton. After 
his stint with the Celtics ended the same way the previous ones had, I 
think the Nuggets decided to sign him in spite of his history. He signed 
the contract (I think) and then simply never showed up in  Denver.  I 
think he was last seen pumping gas in Chicago.

This reminds me - whatever happened to a pair of #11 picks of the 
Pitino/Wallace era, Moiso and Kedrick Brown?
I'm hoping the same fate doesn't befall Gerald Green, although he seems 
at least somewhat motivated, just clueless.

I wish I could watch again some of the games from the Dark Ages, just to 
see what bright futures Tommy was predicting for Thomas Hamilton, Brett 
Szabo, Marty Conlon, Moiso, Kedrick and the rest of the flotsam and 
jetsam of the Celtics' recent history. To think of it, I probably still 
have some VCR tapes (who uses those anymore?) from those days somewhere 
in the attic, maybe they still work.

It feels good to think those days are over.
Kestas




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