Clip #2 - Dino Radja

You can’t stop Dino Radja. You can only hope a knee injury, the 96/97 Celtics, specifically Todd Day, and Rick Pitino destroy his will to be in America. And for the record it doesn’t get much better than Radja allegedly confiding in a teammate, “I do not like this Todd Day.” Shortly thereafter Radja shut it down for the season. Then following the season Dino derailed Boston’s attempts to trade him (http://www.standardtimes.com/daily/06-97/06-24-97/d01sp126.htm). I actually remember Pitino’s take on the situation (from the previous link): “At that time, Radja said he would prefer to be sent to a warm climate and a playoff contender. ‘We explained to him that it's not Club Med.’" Dino never played in the NBA again.

Two more important points from that link:

1. “Pitino has said he would deal anybody for the right price.” Little did we know he would even deal people for the wrong price.

2. Somehow the Sixers had the #2 pick in the draft that year. As you may recall the C’s picked 3rd and 6th. I bring this up because Philadelphia won 7 more games than Boston. Philadelphia was also not accused of openly tanking the season.
Interesting.