--A knee injury in early June clearly affected Bill Walker's draft status, but he expects to be fine soon.
"He's not 100 percent healthy yet, but he's big and strong," said Danny Ainge, the Celtics' executive director of basketball operations. "But he can be the player he has been with the right treatment. A couple of years ago, he was mentioned in the same breath with the same kids who are in the lottery now." --Remember coach Doc Rivers' Gatorade-soaked shirt that went up for auction? It ended up netting $55,000 for the Shamrock Foundation, the team's charitable arm. An anonymous bidder went for $35,000, while Gatorade added $10,000 and another anonymous donor did likewise.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "Back then he was young and immature. Whenever someone transfers, you're always concerned about it. He's had some run-ins, but Steve Alford (his last coach at New Mexico) loved him." -- Coach Doc Rivers on Celtics draftee J.R. Giddens and his troubled past.
