An article on Uraguayan Radio Station Espectador's website says that Esteban Batista, a Center who played unproductively for the Hawks last year, "is very close to playing another season in the NBA. His new team could be the Boston Celtics." They give no justification or reason for reporting this. No mention of an invite from Danny Ainge, no mention of an agent or any other discussions from the team. Just that he might play for them.
When Danny Ainge learned of this news, he had the same reaction as Batista did in his picture above.
Here's what Espectador is sayin':
Esteban Batista, de buena labor en el Preolímpico de Las Vegas, está muy cerca de repetir una nueva temporada en la NBA. Su nuevo equipo podría ser Boston Celtics, que hace poco fichó a uno de los mejores jugadores de la liga, Kevin Garnett.
Esteban Batista tendría grandes chances de ser nuevo jugador de Boston Celtics, equipo que en la temporada 2006-2007 tuvo una marca de 24 partidos ganados y 58 perdidos, siendo el segundo peor equipo de la NBA detrás de Mephis Grizzlies (22-60).
Uruguay is known for a bunch of different things. Gauchos, mate, winning and hosting the first world cup, and according to Wikipedia, being "the second least corrupt country in Latin America behind Chile." Not bad, although sadly I can't say basketball would be high on the list. Nevertheless, if all those Argentines are so damn good, why can't neighbors to the north Uraguayans be good too? I guess we'll see - although this scoop seems a bit suspect.
***UPDATE***
The Globe is catching on to this story, too. Granted, they are just saying that Batista's AGENT says that the Celtics are interested, and Vin Baker passes field sobriety tests about as often as agents tell the truth. Since the Celtics have been a hot name in the offseason, it's probably just a move by the agent to drum up some interest in his client. It's working- I had never heard of this dude before and now I am googling him like crazy.
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