Birdman Cometh?

by Jeff Clark on Jan 29, 2008 1:35 AM EST in Boston Celtics Rumors

Sam Smith of the Chicago Tribune opines:

Another intriguing potential free agent could be Chris Andersen, a hustling big man who is applying for reinstatement after a two-year drug suspension. The New Orleans Hornets control the rights to Andersen (a Joakim Noah/Anderson Varejao type) and you wonder if they'd want to risk disrupting their wonderful chemistry even though coach Byron Scott says the team's bench is weak. Andersen has become friendly with Kevin Garnett and you wonder if the Boston Celtics would want to help their shallow bench if he is reinstated and New Orleans passes on him, though the Hornets might not want to risk Andersen going to a rival like the San Antonio Spurs.

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no way.

by mcpu40 on Jan 29, 2008 8:02 AM EST reply actions

Is he even that good? Plus, I hear he’s going back to New Orleans.

by Roy_Hobbs on Jan 29, 2008 8:08 AM EST reply actions

meh, consider the source – I just wanted to toss it out there for conversation purposes

by Jeff Clark on Jan 29, 2008 8:18 AM EST reply actions

Well, not to sound like a broken record but he is just what we need. An athletic big man off the bench that can actually rebound, block shots, play D, and dunk the ball. Signing Andersen and Mighty Mouse would bring 2 players with drug problems to the team though. May be a bad mix.

by FatoineLover on Jan 29, 2008 8:56 AM EST reply actions

bring on the birdman. that kid had hops.
i don’t know if i’d say he has a “drug problem”. true he got busted after ingesting a “drug of abuse”, and he looks like he played the game high on pcp, but my guess is he got busted with a party drug in his system. now in my younger days i was known to have a few parties (never got busted) and i’d sure hope people don’t look at me as a man with a drug problem.

though my obsessive behavior when it comes to this blog may count as an addiction.

by arctic 3.0 on Jan 29, 2008 9:12 AM EST reply actions

birdman is good- not as good as varajao but he’s big,boards, blocks shots and hustles. we won’t get him but we could use him and open up posey to cover big 3’s. tony would lose time.

by nazzbo on Jan 29, 2008 10:21 AM EST reply actions

If NO don’t want him because they fear what he can do to the chemistry (and they know him), why would the Celtics want to take that chance?

by Wide Load on Jan 29, 2008 10:37 AM EST reply actions

Pollard would provide a lot of the same things if he actually showed up from time to time.

by iowa plowboy on Jan 29, 2008 11:04 AM EST reply actions

Nobody here can tell me with a straight face that Boston wouldn’t embrace the BIRDman, much the same way they embraced Waltah McCarty. Also, wdleehi, I think NO has more legitimate chemistry concerns being a younger, less talented, team with a disciplinarian coach (and anyway I don’t believe they’ll pass on him. My impression was that he was well liked).

If he’s friendly with Garnett that’s good enough for me.

by The Walker Wiggle on Jan 29, 2008 1:40 PM EST reply actions