i swear, DA believes in nothing. Before DA, the Celtics, as an organization, had some values. This is the team that de-segregated professional basketball!! Bill Russel his a figure in U.S. social history. Before DA, the Celtics didn't draft high schoolers. they didn't objectify women and have cheerleaders (who suck by the way, they suck soooo much). they certainly didn't have sex offenders on their team.
Why would anyone want this Patterson on their team? From his wikipedia page:
Patterson has been involved in a number of off-the-court issues during his basketball career. Patterson would have to register himself as a sex offender to establish legal residency in many U.S. states, due to pleading guilty in 2001 to attempted rape of his child's nanny in September 2000.[4] It was reported that he forced the nanny to perform a sex act on him.[4][5] In February 2001, Patterson was convicted of misdemeanor assault for attacking a man who scratched his car outside a Cleveland, Ohio night club. Patterson was arrested in 2002 for felony domestic abuse charges on his wife. His wife later dropped the charges and they divorced.
He was accused of failing to register as a sex offender on May 15, 2007 after moving into a new house in Cincinnati and a bench warrant was issued.[6] His agent, former NFL player Tim McGee, said Patterson's failure to register was "an oversight" after Patterson was ordered to pay a $1,000 fine on June 8. Also on January 3rd 2008 he was waived by the Los Angeles Clippers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Pattersonfor the people who don't trust wikipedia
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/story/2001/05/ ... 10508.htmlhttp://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2898884http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2871702**** Ainge. If he signs Patterson, there is nothing he can do to redeem himself, in my eyes. DA believes in nothing. For him if it works you do it.
DA comes in starts drafting high school students. He defies Red Auerbach's long standing prohibition of cheerleaders. He trades away one of two franchise players for no reason other than to assert his dominance over the organization. For Walker he got a guy who is out the league and an terrible, injured white guy with an albatross contract. Then, he had to give up a good pick that could have been Brandon Roy to cover his ass and recoup his loses. He had to do the same thing with the Blount signing.
Granted DA drafted very, very well and got himself into a position to get the KG trade but i think people forget the luck he had. i have seen a lot of posters says he had to make the Telfair trade becuase the Ratliff contract was essential to the KG trade. Hindsight is 20/20 and really doubt DA thought to himself well, "i'll trade Walker for crap, destroy a winning team, get a good draft pick trade crap i got for walker for crap that expires sooner and i'll use that contract to balance out the salaries and make a trade for a superstar using the expiring contract and rookies."
I think the reality is that DA hated Walker and thought he could build around Pierce, get some good players through the draft, and be contender in 2-4 years. His vision was shattered when Pierce went down last year and he realized that vets when games.
**** DA. If he signs a sex offender, I hope the team gets knocked out in the first round and he gets fired.[/quote]
