You know, in 2008....The Celtics, after waiting 22 LONG Years since their last Championship---Decided to fire their Mascot...and I remember (the day it happened)---you don't Fire a Mascot named "Lucky".....Only TWELVE Days later, KG goes down with a knee injury in Utah---and it's been nothing but Bad Luck ever since....I'm not even superstitious...I just knew they were asking for trouble.....Rondo's Elbow and Knee...Perk's knee....Shaq's achilles... on and on.
lol, but do you remember that article that came out about lucky? He seemed a bit out there, i wish i could remember specifics. Let me see if i can find it.
Ok, I guess it wasn't an article just a RealGM "insider." True or not it' pretty funny:
Ok, I have a friend who works for the Celtics. High enough that he knows the whole Lucky story.Here's the email I got from him today when I asked him about what happened (his name and address have been removed)...
From: xxxxxx@celtics.com
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 2:07 PM
To: xxx
Subject: Re: Lucky
Well, it’s a really long story. But I'll try and make it as brief as possible. Things have been getting worse over the past year for Damon (that’s Lucky). Even before the 07-08 season he started
Edited. Profanity and masked profanity are against forum rules and may result in discipline.ing about his salary. And he gets paid more than you think - the rumor around here is that it's in the 85-95k range. And it’s basically a part time job. Plus, he gets a bonus for appearances, so he's easily in six figures. They didn't end up giving a bump before last season, so he ended up blowing off a few appearances. The brass was a little p---ed, but nothing major. Anyway, after the C's won it last year, it definitely went to his head. This year, he demanded a makeshift "meditation room" be made available so he could get to meditate before every game. He’s huge into that. But people from outside would walk by the closed door and hear him pumping himself up by saying things like "This is your game Damon" and "No one is better than you Damon." It was hilarious. I personally walked by once and heard him blaring some kind of techno and just yelling out loud screams. Also, this year he started referring to himself in the third person. And better yet, as "Lucky", instead of Damon. He did end up getting a raise this year, but I don’t think it was much - so he was p---ed off again. But a few weeks ago, he started having creative differences with the game producer (his boss). Damon wanted to start introducing the players before the game - instead of having the announcer do it. He also wanted to start travelling with the team to away games. Plus, he HATED Coach Willie Maye and thought that he should be doing the in game interviews instead of Willie. Apparently the two of them had words on more than one occasion. But everyone here loves Willie, and that didn’t go over so well. So, the higher ups were starting to get fed up with his BS anyway. Anyway, the other day, there was some kind of fund raiser for Children's Hospital or something and he strictly refused to show up unless we sent a limo to pick him up at his house in Quincy. We obviously didn't send a limo, but told him to take a cab and we'd pay for it. He refused to do this and actually told his boss "Lucky doesn't take cabs" . An actual quote. Anyway, that was the last straw and we let him go yesterday.
