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Post by eja117 on Dec 18, 2023 19:45:00 GMT -5
You had a good rookie year. Thanks for giving me hope back in the day.
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Post by eja117 on Jun 17, 2024 18:15:25 GMT -5
Ahem.....did Montross eat grits? Was Big Grits his nickname?
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Post by CelticsLoyalist on Jun 17, 2024 18:17:47 GMT -5
ya
Big Grits was his nick hahaha
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Post by CelticsLoyalist on Jun 17, 2024 18:20:15 GMT -5
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jul 4, 2024 16:40:22 GMT -5
Too bad about Montross. He was a brute.
We haven't had much fortune taking UNC guys, huh? Montoross, Forte, Rick Fox ...
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Post by freshnthehouse on Jul 4, 2024 17:14:03 GMT -5
Too bad about Montross. He was a brute. We haven't had much fortune taking UNC guys, huh? Montoross, Forte, Rick Fox ... I would say Fox was a pretty good value for a later first round pick. Gave the C's 5-6 decent years. He has went on record that he was all-in on being a Celtic for life, but Patino didn't even offer him a contract, even after he busted his butt on that disasterous 96-97 season where they lost like 67 games. |
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jul 4, 2024 18:51:31 GMT -5
On the other hand, Kansas has been good to us. Pierce, Polard, and Svi all are NBA champs with us!
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Post by CelticsLoyalist on Jul 4, 2024 18:58:39 GMT -5
Right Fresh Pitino was really disastrous. I look back at that time and I almost think he was trying to sabotage us on purpose. Biggest coaching flop in NBA History? After that Rick went on to the Lakers and didn't have nice things to say about his time in Boston. Pitino flew to LA and negotiated a contact with Travis Knight for seven-year, 20-million dollar contract after Fox had agreed to a seven-year, 33-million-dollar deal only to find out later he had been renounced. Red Auerbach called Fox to apologize. The Celtics asked him to wait 90 days until they could sign him again in the middle of the season, but he wasn’t going to do that. His felt his only option was to sign with another team. However, everyone was over the cap, and they only had million-dollar exemptions. - “It’s easy to shift your allegiance when you’re pissed off”
- “Red Auerbach drafted me and then Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish raised me”
- "The league created a Larry Bird Right exemption where if you had been with the team for a certain period of time you could sign over the cap. But they renounced me, and I lost those rights”
- “I was the hottest free agent on the market because I was a guy worth 33-40 million dollars that could only sign for a million dollars”
- “I’m going to win my first championship with the Lakers before they win their seventeenth. And then we won three of them”
- "Basketball was about how you rejected me, kicked me out, and threw me away after I committed what I thought was an act of loyalty. And now I have to prove that you made a mistake.”
- “East Coast is always a very physical, grind-it-out experience night in and night out. I had to learn how to be physical in order to survive in the Eastern Conference. I remember coming to the Western Conference and being shocked at how soft it was”
He was the first rookie to start for us on opening night in Boston since Bird in 1979. Eventually earning team captain, he averaged 10.7 points and 1.2 steals in a primarily sixth-man role in his 6 seasons with us. |
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Post by DERRENMATTS on Jul 4, 2024 19:16:14 GMT -5
Fox shouldn't be upset at the Celtics organization. He should target his frustrations at Pitino.
What would have been if we did get that first pick of the '97 draft? Would Pitino's name be tied to Celtics' championships?
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