A 7-foot center leaves a Bay Area team to join the Celtics after being called either lazy or unmotivated. That is what happened in 1980, when the Celtics acquired Robert Parish from the Warriors, and again this year as Patrick O'Bryant joined the Celtics as a free agent. (Full article: 630 words)

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