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this is a great sign. Bowen is coming back!
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Bruce Bowen Turns Down The Celtics?
by Roy_Hobbs on Aug 18, 2009 8:12 AM EDT in Rumors
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Bowen reportedly declines to join Paul in Boston, at least right now
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Hoopsworld reports:
Sources close to the situation say Bowen is leaning heavily towards retirement, or at least sitting out until the regular season gets underway. The Boston Celtics were said to be aggressive in their pursuit of Bowen but were turned away. The common belief is that Bowen may pull a "P.J. Brown" and sit out until January, then joining a playoff team as a hired gun for the post-season.While Sam Amico writes:
"There have been reports Boston was interested in Bowen, but he did not feel the same."A couple of things here. First, Hoopsworld isn't always the most reliable of sources, and that's putting it gently. Also, it seems like Amico is simply relaying something that was already reported, so he very well could be piggy-backing off of the Hoopsworld story.
That being said, the story does make at least a modi of sense. If this is true, I guess this means that Danny really does buy into the "we don't need another point guard" argument. The maximum number of players on a roster is 15. Right now, we have 13 players under contract, with Marquis Daniels on the way. Unless Danny can work some sort of trade (a sign-and-trade for Daniels, a 2-for-1, etc.), the next addition to the roster is probably the last one.
http://www.celticsblog.com/2009/8/18...wn-the-celtics
this is a great sign. Bowen is coming back!
I hope so
But again, it's Hoopworld
That Bowen nuthugger will be happy.
oh no.
hoopsworld says Bowen turned them down...that means he is playing with them.
Hoops World has actually been right on the last couple of things they have posted (ex. Mcdyess). So if there is ANY truth to this it is good. I told everyone it was either San Antonio or retirement!
Bruce would cringe everytime he sees Ray Allen and his giant vagina in the celtics locker room.
Probably means he's been guaranteed a starting spot w/ that Pierce guy backing him up...
The common belief is that Bowen may pull a "P.J. Brown" and sit out until January, then joining a playoff team ()as a hired gun for the post-season.
Think about it.
Why would a mature man like Bruce want to hang around these guys for an entire season including minimum 2 rounds into playoffs:
1. Ray Allen. The guy who will give him the silent treatment.
2. Keven Garnett. They guy who will mad dog him everyday to assert his alpha dog mentality on the evil man who bullied his boy Ray Allen.
3. Paul Peirce. The third musketeer who will ignore Bruce because he is not part of the click and has just as many rings as the three Celtics combined.
Bring him back!
WTF Pop bring Bruce back.
Bowen is the last piece.....
Yeah he probably thought for a second and said "Wow... Gay Allen.... yeah no."
pop'll wait till jan, and see if spurs defense can hold up without bruce and go from there...
From: http://www.boston.com/sports/basketb...action/?page=2
But just as crucial is the return to health (and good form) of the Big Three. Duncan, according to Popovich, is in the best shape of his career and eager to win a fifth ring. Manu Ginobili, who has been hurt in each of the last two postseasons, is healthy. Popovich said “my heart sunk’’ when he heard that Tony Parker had hurt an ankle while playing for France.
“It makes me sick,’’ he said. “There’s nothing you can do about it. It’s frustrating. But it’s a minor sprain. From what we read, it could have been a whole lot worse.’’
Duncan, Parker, and Ginobili all were big players in the last three San Antonio championships (2003, 2005, 2007). Another was 38-year-old Bruce Bowen, who went to Milwaukee in the Jefferson trade. The Bucks waived him at the end of July and he is a free agent. Might he be part of another Spurs run, albeit in a subordinate role?
“I’ve given him no such indication,’’ Popovich said. “He might come back with the right team in the right situation, but it’s probably not going to be San Antonio.’’
Popovich still puts the Lakers on top in the West, but the reconfigured Spurs have him energized as he prepares for his 13th full season as the main man in San Antonio.
“I’m really excited,’’ he said. “If we had come to training camp with the same group we had at the end of last year, everyone would have gone into major depression. I would have been saying, ‘follow me,’ and turned around to find nobody there. It was time to change the music and I think we’ve done that.’’
it would be more likely that we see bruce retire as opposed to in a spurs uniform again.
Yeah baby. Bring bruce back home.
Nice plan. Bring him on for the playoffs.
Bowen & cry baby ray on the same team? lol
Bowen on the Celtics = Kerr on the Suns
Destroy the team from the inside
Its obvious Bowen isn't coming back. Pop has said this much. Its time Spur fans stop pinning for him. He's not coming back. The end.
Bruce has grown personally and professionally to the point that he's not going to sit on the Celtics bench. I also think that Pop was just setting the stage. Right now, today, who do the Spurs have that will be a better perimeter defender than Bruce? No one! If Hairston, Williams or Mason developes into a lockdown defender so be it. I believe we will add Bruce sometime during the season. He is A SPUR forever and I believe he will return to help with championship #5.
If the Spurs have all of these new guys on the team, can they really afford to not sign Bruce until later on in the season?
It seems risky putting all that hard work into getting the guys comfortable with one another during the season, and then injecting a potential key defender for key playoff minutes amongst the new Spurs suddenly in the playoffs.
I'm still confident Bruce will return to the Spurs as a coach and mentor Hill into the next 10 time consecutive DPOY.
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