Deke to Celts?

Marc J. Spears of the Boston Globe "]
Once Dikembe Mutombo passes out his gifts, he hopes to return to the NBA for a final season, possibly with the Celtics.

The 7-foot-2-inch, 260-pound center said last week he hopes to sign with a team after spending Christmas with his family in Atlanta. The four-time Defensive Player of the Year said among the teams that have shown interest are Boston, San Antonio, and Miami. The former Rocket also said Houston has "not answered me." The 42-year-old, who has blocked 3,278 shots during his 17-year career, said he is in "good shape" from working out three hours a day with spinning classes, yoga, and weightlifting.

"You'll see me in the next two weeks," Mutombo said. "I will be somewhere. I really need to go back to playing. I've just got to make sure that I go to a place where I can be happy. There are about four to five teams that I've been looking at and about seven teams that have shown interest. It's up to me to make my decision."

The Celtics have the maximum 15 players and would have to waive one to make room for Mutombo. While Boston's starting center spot is solidified with Kendrick Perkins, his backups include seldom-used Patrick O'Bryant and undersized Leon Powe and Glen Davis. The Celtics have not replaced the veteran experience and length that free agent P.J. Brown brought late last season and have interest in Mutombo, but have not offered him a contract.

"The way Boston is playing right now with [Kevin Garnett], Paul Pierce, and Ray Allen, the team is heading in a direction toward winning another championship," Mutombo said. "It will be interesting if I made the decision to go there. It would be very good. I've been to the Finals twice [with Philadelphia and New Jersey]. I got close, but I walked away empty-handed. Maybe going to Boston would give me a chance to win.

"I would love to play until July and then retire after this season," added the eight-time All-Star. "My plan is to play this season. If my mind is set to play basketball, why not?"[/quote][/quote]

Deke? No.

I'd gladly take him. We could use a little depth at the 5, and Patrick O'Bryant clearly counts as depth.

KyleCleric wrote:Deke? No.

As good as we are, i stil think we've got holes in the team that we could use insurence at multiple positions and feel like we're only really covered at the 2 and 4 positions.

On the flip side, i think the team as it stands has the best chance to win the title again over any other team out there- what though could we do to increase our odds though?

what could we do to get better?

Marbury's talent backing up Rondo would be most welcome, however the possible problems he brings to the locker room could be more of a disruption than the talent on the floor would help.

at the 4/5 positions who could we bring in without a trade? Mutumbo and Brown would be the primary options, i cant think of anyone else that is out there.. but that woudl mean a cut- or cassel becoming a full time assistent coach- and i kinda like the idea of keeping him availible

who might be availible to trade for that we could get without creating a large disruption in the rotation- any trade can always backfire and even something that looked like it would be a good idea at the time can come back to bite you

However one possiblity i heard was joe johnson being attained for something like pruit-baby-Scal, or was it scal and POB? something like that. I sort of like that deal.

I think we're at an interesting point, we;ve got the meaans to win again, with the reguler 10-12 guys we play, and also have some youngsters in guys like Gibbens and Walker, Pruit and POB, guys who are being looked at more as long term projects more than anything else. Toss in a big Baby and/or a Scal, possibly a draft pick later on and I think we could find ourselves able to land another quality player who can help us out more at the 5...

theres a lot of options availible to us, and a number could be done without the concern of having a disrupting of the team's chemistry that we already enjoy.

I bet he knows alot about ubutu or whatever the fuck its called

goldnblue83 wrote:I bet he knows alot about ubutu or whatever the fuck its called

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)