The fourth-round pick the Pats used to secure wide receiver Randy Moss was the one they acquired from the 49ers, along with San Francisco’s 2008 first-round pick, in exchange for the Pats second pick in the first round (No. 28) Saturday. Translation? The Pats landed Moss and the Niners first-round pick next year, for this year’s No. 28 (San Francisco picked OT Joe Staley). . . .Reminiscent of how the Celtics built up their 80s championships: Red Auerbach drafted Larry Bird with the 8th pick in '78, at the end of Bird's junior year. Bird signed with the Celtics after Indiana State lost to Magic's Michigan State but before the '79 draft rolled around. A year later, Auerbach traded the #1 overall pick to Golden State for their #3 overall and a journeyman center GS thought to be essentially washed up at the time: Robert Parrish.
Golden State took Joe Barry Carroll. The Celtics took Kevin McHale.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
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