Boston Radio Watch:
Somewhere Johnny Most is doing a play-by-play of a Celtics game, smoking a cigarette and calling NBA referees all sorts of politically-incorrect names. Cedric Maxwell is no Johnny Most. Not yet at least. And that's no quack on Max's quack-o-meter.
The long and embarassing 2006/07 Celtics season is getting longer and more embarassing on the court and on the air. According to a poster/reader on the Universal Hub blog, Cedric Maxwell, the team's 12-year radio analyst and a former Celtics star forward, made an inappropriate comment about NBA female referee Violet Palmer after she called a foul on the Green Team during radio broadcast this past Monday night(2/26) :
"During the first quarter of tonight's radio broadcast of the Celtics game against the Houston Rockets,one of the Celtics players managed to fake out the referee to get a call to go his way. The referee who made this call was Violet Palmer, who happens to be a woman. Cedric Maxwell, the analyst / sidekick on the Celtics broadcast team, proclaimed "Get back in the kitchen!" when she made the call. Max's partner, Sean Grande, tried to throw him a lifeline by pointing out that they had both been previously impressed by Palmer's officiating, but Max continued "Get back in the kitchen and fix me some bacon and eggs!" "
According to the Boston Herald, Maxwell's comments didn't sit well with WEEI/WRKO's programming chief Jason Wolfe who indicated that the C's legend will apologize on the air during the Celtics-New York Knicks broadcast on Wednesday night. Maxwell will not be fined or suspended by Entercom. Since, technically, he's a Boston Celtics employee, the team has not made any comment on his on-air remarks.