Bill Wwalker sounds like a great person to have on our team, strong work ethic, hard working and a good sign he is recovering nicely from his injury.

Walker is an athletic freak with outstanding BB skills. I think we all pretty much knew that, but his KState coach called Walker the “smartest” basketball player he’s EVER coached! That’s what really impressed me! You see so many kids come into the league that are unbelievably athletic(ie.,GG,KBrown), but have no BB IQ at all.
If he can stay healthy, I think he could be the steal of the entire draft! I just don’t think you send a guy like that packing to Europe. Plus it sounds like his attitude (attending mini camp even though injured and unable to play, and working out in Boston all summer) is tremendous on top of everything! Go BW!!!!!!!!

I was hoping he’d wear #8. ;D

great news

I have a really good feeling about this kid. I might have to get a jersey made.

Glad to hear it. The kid is impressive in interviews too.

“I was hoping he’d wear #8.”

You don’t think their marketing department is stupid, do you?

I can’t believe we didn’t retire Ricky Davis’ number…

i like the attitude hes shown over summer.. staying in shape, attending camp though injured and w/o contract etc

busy day for danny and the c’s. i think bill walker is already good, but go slow with him- let the knees heal. i don’t want to see any injury heartbreaks with this kid. meanwhile, darius miles-i wish he was as good as his name. darius— darius milhaud- darius brubeck. miles— miles davis.. i wish he could make sweet music like his namebearers.

Billy Buckets

Lovvve it. Was worried they would stash him in Europe.

Perkins / O’Bryant / Davis
Garnett / Powe / Scalabrine
Pierce / Miles / Walker
RAllen / TAllen / Giddens
Rondo / House / Pruitt

I would love to consolidate some roster space and add a vet big man.. then I’d feel seriously good about the season.

On another note, I really like that we’re contending now obviously, but have some youth.. at PG (Rondo/Pruitt), the wings (Giddens/Walker), and bigs (Perkins/O’Bryant/Davis/Powe)

Kudos to FO

I like Bill Walker so far but I would caution that interview/RL smarts don’t equal basketball smarts. Some really “dumb” individuals are geniuses on the court and really dumb IRL and vice versa.

Pete

Giddens has not officially signed yet, so that we have a 14-man roster as of now.

Wow ! Danny does it again. Giddens, Walker, Miles, and O’Bryant.
Great stuff… also saw Semih Erden on the Turkish olympic team and he looked very athletic for a big man, although he won’t be here this year. Danny Ainge is making great decisions.
What I thought would be a quiet summer turned out to be action-packed. Awesome.

Danny saw the Atlanta series and determined we needed to get younger,longer & more athletic in the next few years as PP,KG&Ray get older…in fact,probably next year and so he did…plus we have caproom in 2010..by then we’ll know who can help us and what we’ll do with Ray…Danny has a plan for the next 5 yrs ,let’s hope it works as well as the last one…lol

Ainge is a good judge of talent. It has been an interesting off season. Training camp will be fun this year. I think Powe will take a big step forward this season.