BROOKLINE - He was in camp 10 minutes and he already had a nickname. "I hadn't even taken a shot yet, and Danny Ainge was calling me Oscar," said Kevin Gamble. "I guess he was thinking back to his baseball days." Back then, a little over 13 months ago, the real Oscar Gamble would have been more recognizable to Boston sports fans than Kevin Gamble, who was plucked off a Continental Basketball Association roster for a quick 10-day look but ended up sticking with the Celtics for the remainder of the 1988-89 season. Much has happened since then. Ainge was traded to Sacramento, and now thinks up ni...
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Buehler?
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The Boston Globe, January 28th, 1990
BROOKLINE - He was in camp 10 minutes and he already had a nickname. "I hadn't even taken a shot yet, and Danny Ainge was calling me Oscar," said Kevin Gamble. "I guess he was thinking back to his baseball days." Back then, a little over 13 months ago, the real Oscar Gamble would have been more recognizable to Boston sports fans than Kevin Gamble, who was plucked off a Continental Basketball Association roster for a quick 10-day look but ended up sticking with the Celtics for the remainder of the 1988-89 season. Much has happened since then. Ainge was traded to Sacramento, and now thinks up ni...
Yea! I remembered that from back then, amazingly enough.
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