<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Mark Bartelstein, agent to Celtics center Mark Blount, told the Boston Globe that his client would exercise the player option on his contract this week and become a free agent.</div> <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Blount will get a lot of calls from Eastern Conference squads, starting with the Miami Heat, who need help in the middle, and the Philadelphia 76ers, where former Celtics head coach Jim O'Brien now resides.</div> <div align="center">Source</div>
