bleacherreport.com - 7/3/2009
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Unfortunately, the NBA is a business.
We received the latest evidence yesterday, when the Boston Celtics declined to tender a qualifying offer to Leon Powe, most likely ending his stay in Boston.
A fan favorite, Powe has defied odds his entire career, battling homelessness, injuries, and his lack of size (for an NBA power forward). The NBA is a cruel world, though, and, when Powe tore his ACL and meniscus in his left knee, the Celtics decided to cut him loose.
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boston.com - 7/3/2009
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boston.com —
Celtics free agent guard Stephon Marbury said to
The Globe early Friday morning that he doesn't expect...
to be returning to Boston after receiving a disappointing one-year contract paying $1.3 million using the veteran's minimum. Marbury said his ...
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Marbury believes Celtics days are over
the5thcorner.com - 7/3/2009
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the5thcorner.com —
Rasheed Wallace A couple of day ago I
talked about the two Tar Heels that are unrestricted...
free agents . From what I have heard on ESPN (Mike & Mike in the Morning, via of Chris Boussard) and this article from Philly.com it sounds like Boston is very interested in Wallace . From the ...
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Wallace meets with most of the Celtics
csnne.com - 7/4/2009
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csnne.com —
Dallas has become the 5th team interested in
Glen "Big Baby" Davis, along with Memphis, New York,...
San Antonio and Detroit. He wants to stay in Boston but the money may be to good to turn down. Leon Powe is an example of what can happen. Leon was going ...
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Big Baby Update
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Fiddlin' and Diddlin' - Daily Links 7/3
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... back on the free agent market, sort of! Ken Berger Gordon revisited: Sign-and-trade for Iverson?- FanHouse Artest in L.A. Could Most Hurt Gasol Patriot Ledger Celtics travel to Michigan to make a sales pitch for Wallace SI.com Rasheed Wallace receptive to Celtics' pitch NECN Ainge: Hudson must prove himself to Rivers Bleacher Report Why Lester Hudson Is the Steal of the Draft for the Boston Celtics Powe Must Go, Says Celtics' Front Office My Southend East could flip itself upside ...
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... for Iverson?- FanHouse Artest in L.A. Could Most Hurt Gasol Patriot Ledger Celtics travel to Michigan to make a sales pitch for Wallace SI.com Rasheed Wallace receptive to Celtics' pitch NECN Ainge: Hudson must prove himself to Rivers Bleacher Report Why Lester Hudson Is the Steal of the Draft for the Boston Celtics Powe Must Go, Says Celtics' Front Office My Southend East could flip ...
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