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Walker/Bird



Hi Michael

As I admitted to Mishra yesterday in a off-list e-mail, I regret posting

what I did about Bird and Walker and "free, white and 21".  (Reason
being that many people on the list like Dorrine have posted very
calm/rational/compelling criticisms of Walker that, of course, have
ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with his mannerisms or race.) But I point out,
Michael, that Larry Bird's teamates in his first two seasons included
veteran pros (Maxwell, Carr, Ford) plus  four Hall of Fame type-guys
(Tiny, Cowens, McHale, Parish).  Not exactly Travis Knight and the Pips.

Joe

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Michael A.DiZio wrote:
>  If Antoine Walker were "free, white and 21", he might get away
> >with his youthful idiosyncrasies/arrogance in Boston just as Larry
> Bird
> >did. Am I saying something so controversial?
> >
> >I don't think so.
> >
> >Joe
>
> Whoa there hoss. Antoine Walker is no Larry Bird. Larry got away with
> his
> "youthful idiosyncracies", because he was a spectacular player with an

> all
> around game and the team WON. Walker has got a looong way to go