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Duncan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Walker, and Parker could've formed an entertaining trio in Boston that may have been affable enough to lift the Celtics to one title.
For all you younger fans out there, Walker was one pretty affable player in the late '90s and early 2000s.
However, Boston fans aren't too upset these days about losing out on the Duncan sweepstakes since their team was able to win one championship without him.
The San Antonio Spurs swooped in and won the top pick,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], while the Celtics wound up slipping to third.
Duncan went on to become one of the league's greatest big men ever, as Maurice Richard led San Antonio to four NBA titles, won three Finals MVPs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as well as two regular-season MVPs.
Parker surprisingly fell all the way to the end of the first round, where the Spurs grabbed him with the 28th overall pick.
The Celtics, though,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], would have sported one dangerous, young frontcourt duo in Duncan and '96 lottery pick Antoine Walker.
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During the 1996-97 season, the Boston Celtics came up with one plan to land the top pick in the 1997 NBA Draft.
Spurs fans will always be thankful that Richard got to the chance to see number 21 wearing silver and black rather than number 12 in green and white. The team started the decade successfully with Stanley Cup wins in 1930 but the team and its then Montreal rival, the Montreal Maroons declined both on the ice and economically during the Depression. Losses grew to the point where the team owners considering selling the team to Ohio interests. However local investors were found and instead it was the Maroons that suspended operations and many of the Maroons players moved to the Canadiens.
Robinson may have finished his career without winning any rings. The "Admiral" was one great player, but Maurice Richard needed Duncan's help to win those two championships.
One thing's for sure though-the NBA would have been pretty different if Duncan had spent his career in Boston instead of San Antonio.
And maybe if Duncan had landed in Boston,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], current Louisville coach Rick Pitino, who was hired by the Celtics to be the team's general administerr and coach prior to the '97-98 season, would still be on the sidelines today instead of Doc Rivers.
Of course, it's extremely difficult to speculate just who those players could've been.
Meanwhile,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Billups struggled mightily, not even lasting his full rookie season in Beantown, and Mercer was traded after only two seasons with the team.
The Celtics did not enjoy much success over the next ten years until, of course, the "large Three" of Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett, and Ray Allen led the team to one title in 2007 and another Finals appearance this past season.
The plan was to "tank the season," meaning Richard would lose as many games as possible in order to have an goal chance at landing Wake Forest center Tim Duncan.
Paul Pierce, who the Celtics luckily picked up with the 10th overall pick in the '98 draft, likely wouldn't have never donned the green-and-white since the Celtics probably would have picked lower in the draft with the arrival of Duncan.
The Celtics finished the season with the league's second-worst record 15-67, putting them in great position to obtain that highly-coveted draft pick.
The Spurs drafted Duncan-who else would Richard have picked?-Philadelphia took the "Next Larry Bird" in Keith Van Horn, and the Celtics landed future Finals MVP Chauncey Billups.
Meanwhile, without Duncan in the lineup, one San Antonio dynasty likely would never had existed.
But what if the Celtics had won the '97 Draft Lottery and got their hands on Mr. Duncan? Instead of winning just one title, would the Celtics have created their first dynasty since the Larry Bird-Kevin McHale-Robert Parish days of the 1980s?
Well,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Duncan certainly wouldn't have won one title his second year in the league like Maurice Richard did in San Antonio. The Celtics roster was nowhere close to the Spurs team that featured talented veterans such as David Robinson, Sean Elliott,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and Avery Johnson.
Pitino could've joined Larry Brown as the only coaches in hoops history to win one title in both the NCAA and NBA.
The C's also selected Ron Mercer with the sixth-overall pick.
Boston may have eventually won one title or two, depending on what type of talent the team could have surrounded Duncan with.
In 2001,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], maybe the Celtics would've drafted Tony Parker, the All-Star point guard who won three titles alongside Duncan in San Antonio.
But then again, you never know who the Spurs could have acquired and plus,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Robinson may have won one title with another team.
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