SAS says Sheed's going back to Boston

[Leetonidas]

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2011/01/rasheed-wallace-planning-to-re-join-the-celtics/


Stephen A. Smith tells The Dan Patrick Show that Wallace told him he plans to help the C’s avenge their NBA Finals loss to the Lakers by coming out of retirement: “Smith said that the Celtics counter the Heat’s athleticism with ‘brute size’ and Rasheed Wallace will come out of retirement to come back to the Celtics. Smith said Wallace told him that’s the plan, because he wants another shot at the Lakers in the NBA Finals.


Not surprising, but I'm sure he's seriously overweight.

[BUMP]

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2011/01/rasheed-wallace-planning-to-re-join-the-celtics/




Not surprising, but I'm sure he's seriously overweight.

I don’t really know when it began. Or even why.
I was brought up in a wonderful Christian home with two parents who fully imparted God’s love to me, and nurtured in the faith by an excellent Bible-believing church. I came to know and love Jesus in a very authentic relationship in early childhood.
I didn’t struggle with most of the temptations urban teenagers encounter: drugs, alcohol, cheating at school, fighting, stealing. I had a superego the size of a Wal-Mart. Yet, sexual fantasy was a challenge for me, a source of incredible guilt and torment. Fortunately, through high school, I had limited exposure to explicit material.
But in college, that changed. I was living with non-Christian roommates and in an environment where pornography was pervasive, I found myself drawn to it, at first when no one was looking so as not to ruin my witness. By senior year, I gave up pretending and convinced myself that looking at porn was not sinful. This wasn’t by some theological revelation; it was because I got tired of having to constantly confess when I fell.
I got married two years after I graduated. By now, I’d renounced my attempts to make pornography use morally acceptable. I was sure that marriage would solve this problem (by now, it was a full-fledged addiction). It didn’t. No problem like an addiction gets solved by marriage. It made things worse.
Things deteriorated over the years. As technology changed and my resistance diminished, I found that behaviors I’d previously deemed unthinkable became normalized. All this while being deeply conflicted, ashamed, and terrified of being discovered. In my journal, I wrote:
"This is heavy………
Something unnatural, and way beyond my control is driving me on a futile search for more and more.
I love You, Lord; no other sin do I routinely commit in deliberate, premeditated fashion, not wanting to hurt you, but unable to stop.... Why?
I’m operating on two levels now. On one hand, I’m a deliberate, rebellious sinner, bent on a consuming lust, casting aside all concerns of godliness.
But then, I’m a man of God, desperately desiring to do what is right.
Do not utterly forsake me!”
Many a day, I’d wake up not wondering if I’d yield to temptation, but wondering how bad it would be. For several months at a time, I would stop taking communion, knowing that the next day, I’d probably be back at it again.
Even though at times I shared aspects of my struggle (including going to counseling), no one, including myself, understood and realized the extent to which this sin-sickness was consuming my soul. But in 1991, I became desperate; I saw clearly that I was being destroyed and was no longer able to hide my secret life. I disclosed all to my wife, parents, selected friends. For the next few months, I tried to change my life through counseling and accountability relationships.
However, I did not really understand how deeply embedded the addiction was in my soul, nor did I or those around me have a clue about the recovery process. And, in retrospect, I never really stopped addictive behavior. While I’d cut off the worst forms of acting out, there were many “minor” concessions I was continuing to make to lust. Soon, I was in full relapse. And too frightened, proud, and self-deceived to admit it.
One summer morning in 1995, my wife confronted me after I’d stayed up all night surfing online for pornography. In many ways, that morning, my life ended. In an instant, I went from being a superstar in my community, the ideal husband and father, an admired leader in the church, even the model recovering addict, to being a moral failure, a visual adulterer, a liar, a porno junkie.
As I confessed and came to realize how low I’d gone, as I saw the unspeakable pain these admissions caused my wife, as I bore the humiliation of church discipline (I was a leader and employee of my church), as I tallied the amount of money I’d spent and the time I’d wasted, as I was confronted with my moral bankruptcy, I began to question the ability of God’s love to extend to me. I understood grace, unconditional compassion, mercy beyond understanding; but I started to wonder if I was the exception clause, the one that God had abandoned. I wondered if my family, my community would be better off without me and even considered suicide, though for the sake of my children, I did not dwell on this for long.
Fortunately, my story doesn’t end here. Truly, with the psalmist, I can say:
“I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore. For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.” Ps. 86: 12-13 (KJV)
In the darkest night of my soul, I began a new life. And for the past eleven years, I’ve been involved in a journey of recovery, transformation, and restoration. And I can say that today I walk in freedom and victory.
God has used many tools to accomplish this including deep friendships that involve much more than just reporting my failures, periods of counseling with a therapist who really understands addiction, intense involvement with a 12-step group, the discipline of routine self-reflection, and the ministry of helping others who have struggled like me. And in this journey, I’ve had some amazing experiences and witnessed unchallengeable evidences of God’s grace and power.
Without question, the most miraculous sign of God’s favor has been in the ongoing restoration of my relationship with my wife. I will never fully grasp the depth of pain I caused her, the degree to which I betrayed her trust and shredded her self-esteem. Our former pastor described the impact of my addiction on my wife as like that of a Mac truck driving though a beautiful stained-glass window.
My actions ruined our marriage beyond repair. God has given my wife the amazing grace, the inexplicable capacity to forgive, so that we could work together to build a new marriage. I can never again question God’s love, for each morning I wake up next to a beautiful godly woman whose love I don’t deserve.
So, where am I now? I am free and I am being freed.
Free, in that I no longer worry about how bad it will be. Situations, environments, opportunities, emotions that would have led me to sin no longer do. I really can say “no”. Free, because I have developed a lifestyle of rigorous honesty, routine accountability, and behavioral safeguards, knowing that I am still vulnerable to temptation and self-deception.
And being freed. I am not perfect. I’m not what I used to be, but I ain’t what I’m gonna be. God continues to point out ways that I concede to my sinful nature (lust-based and otherwise). And I continue to heal from the patterns of thinking and relating to others that my years in addiction taught me.
When my life had fallen apart eleven years ago, I didn’t know if there was any hope for someone like me. But now I know that “… the LORD's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear” (Isaiah 59:1).
God has saved me. God has heard me. God has restored my life!

[bostonguy]

This must mean KG won't be back anytime soon. Are they really going to have 6 bigs on the roster: KG,Perkins,Davis,Jermaine, Shaq, AND Sheed?

[Mal]

This must mean KG won't be back anytime soon. Are they really going to have 6 bigs on the roster: KG,Perkins,Davis,Jermaine, Shaq, AND Sheed?

Erden, Harangody.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Why not bring back Robert Parish while you're at it

[Juanobili]

fuck it. get Antoine Walker too while you're at it

[jag]

fuck it. get Antoine Walker too while you're at it

He's ballin in the DLeague right now.

[ginobili's bald spot]

Record hatin bitch imo

[JamStone]

Why not? All of Boston's bigs are either injured, fat, injured and fat, an injury waiting to happen, lazy and fat, or they suck.

Sheed currently fits in at least a couple of those categories.

[LnGrrrR]

Boston just trying to set the record for oldest team ever. :tu :lol

[rickross]

Boston just trying to set the record for oldest team ever. :tu :lol

reggie miller still out there.

Him and ray allen and shaq in the middle... lmao PS3 stuff.

[LnGrrrR]

reggie miller still out there.

Him and ray allen and shaq in the middle... lmao PS3 stuff.

I heard they're going to sign Bill Russell... think about how much veteran savvy the Celtics would have THEN! Unbeatable, IMHO.

[rickross]

I heard they're going to sign Bill Russell... think about how much veteran savvy the Celtics would have THEN! Unbeatable, IMHO.

where's red when u need him. They should revive him for an epic finals vs lakers with the chance to beat phil. Revivin a difficul thang 2 do even for stern, but they could say they use a medium or some shit like.

[LnGrrrR]

where's red when u need him. They should revive him for an epic finals vs lakers with the chance to beat phil. Revivin a difficul thang 2 do even for stern, but they could say they use a medium or some shit like.

That's just wrong :lmao

[Giuseppe]

I never doubted it for a moment. Just hope it turns out like Jordan when he pulled the same thing.

[crc21209]

Not surprised. The C's are going to be stocked with bigs....damn. KG, Perkins, Sheed, Big Baby, Shaq, and J. O'Neal. Play 4 of them with Rondo and one of either Pierce and Allen and clog the paint..:lol

[NRHector]

http://www.slamonline.com/online/nba/2011/01/rasheed-wallace-planning-to-re-join-the-celtics/




Not surprising, but I'm sure he's seriously overweight.

two Shaqs!!!! :wow

[mindcrime]

This must mean KG won't be back anytime soon. Are they really going to have 6 bigs on the roster: KG,Perkins,Davis,Jermaine, Shaq, AND Sheed?

Nah, has nothing to do with KG. Just like Culburn said months ago when Sheed retired. He will be back after the all star break and rejoin Boston. It has already been written.

[Roger Freemason Jr.]

Sure, perhaps Sheed would like to return to Boston, but there's no way in hell, Boston is going to want or need him. Boston is fine with the players they currently have, Garnett isn't seriously injured either, he'll be back very soon.

That's why I think, if SAS even knows of Sheed's plans, but then it's likely that they won't fall through, that maybe Sheed will finally consider making Pop's dreams come true.

[024]

is this for real?

[Giuseppe]

That's why I think, if SAS even knows of Sheed's plans, but then it's likely that they won't fall through, that maybe Sheed will finally consider making Pop's dreams come true.

A rapist and a psychopath? Pop?

Shit, it'd take you two players to get what we have in just one.

ha, ha.

[Roger Freemason Jr.]

A rapist and a psychopath? Pop?

Shit, it'd take you two players to get what we have in just one.

ha, ha.

:lol

[Leftyventricle]

http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/71093/20110111/agent_disputes_report_of_rasheeds_return/

[Giuseppe]

:lol

:lol

[Tommy Heinsohn]

Sheed on THIS team? Are you kidding me? That's a championship team for the Celtics, no questions asked, guaranteed, excuse me, guaranSHEED!

You're talking about a team with 7, maybe 8 Hall of Famers, and you think another team has a chance? Get out of heah!

[ButtHurt Committee]

Sheed is better than any big man on the Spurs.

[Giuseppe]

I'm torn, deep in a canundrum, Swords is right next to me. He's kinda cute, for a girl.

Anyway, I want the Celtics mighty enough to dispose of the Heat and all other Eastern Conference interlopers, but, a course not mighty enough to give us pause this June.

Now what was that--that Luva said when I was walkin' the floors of his basement (well, his mother's basement) last June? Oh, yeah,,,,"Nobody closes us out. Nobody."