re:just talk about basketball!?

[Kenneth Mattina <mattinak@teleport.com>]

I was really getting the hang of this thing right around the draft.  I was
posting almost daily.  Now that no one is talking about hoops, I find my
interest waning.  Can't we stop ripping the players, owners, and each other
and talk basketball?

However, it is still a free country.  ;-)

Ken

mattinak@teleport.com
mattinak@ohsu.edu




At 06:52 PM 7/2/98 +0200, Joe Hironaka wrote:
>Hi:
>
>    If you all won't mind my saying so, I wish we can negotiate a
>moratorium on the fruitless and dullish "owners' fault/players' fault"
>debate on this list. For the first time in a long time, I'm skipping
>over rather than reading a lot of posts on the Boston Celtics' mailing
>list.  While I'd agree that the owner's lockout is a topical issue, I'd
>prefer if we stuck only to constructive ideas (including the several
>good ones already out there on our list) re: the CBA and ways to break
>the impasse.
>
>    Or better still, we can just talk about basketball!?
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>****
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>    Yesterday at CNN/SI,  Jackie MacMullin reported the following quote
>concerning Paul Pierce:
>
>"That talk about Pierce is baloney," says Golden State general manager
>Garry St. Jean. "He had a great workout with us. He might have more
>ability to score than any other rookie because he can drift and shoot,
>can come off the screen, can break you down off the dribble and can go
>down to the box and score."
>
>    According to this article, Denver GM Dan Issel had said before the
>draft that Paul Pierce "might be a little soft."
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>****
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>    The Providence Journal site today reported the following BosCelts
>financial info, according to documents filed with the Securities and
>Exchange Commission.
>
>    "For the nine months ended March 31 (the latest for which figures
>are available), the Celtics rang up a net profit of about $14.42
>million.Revenues for the nine months through March 31 jumped about 20
>percent, to about $65 million. The Celtics front office attributed the
>improved performance partly to a 20 percent increase in revenue from
>ticket sales, and a 24 percent increase in television and radio
>revenues."
>
>    The article also reports that Rick Pitino will continue to earn
>$18,500 per day and that Paul Gaston paid himself 1 million in salary
>last year as the chief executive officer.
>
>     (I personally don't know enough to judge how valid or meaningful
>such numbers are. BTW, an econ prof at Harvard once joked during his
>lecture that "an economist is someone who lacked the personality to
>become an accountant".  I wouldn't be surprised if he stole this
>self-deprecating line from somewhere else, but I thought it was pretty
>funny. )
>
>****
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