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How would you like to have a Boston front court that includes Jamal
Mashburn  and Dirk Nowitzki? It might have happened had the Golden State
Warriors said "yes" to a pre-draft trade proposal from Boston. The Celtics,
despite their public denials, were indeed shopping Walker. One of their
proposals was to send Walker, Greg Minor, Pervis Ellison, and Dontae Jones
to the Warriors for the fifth pick in the draft and Latrell Sprewell. The
assumption was that Boston would then have turned around and dealt Sprewell
to Miami for Mashburn and assorted flotsam. The Celtics could have had
Nowitzki at No. 5;