<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The club signed both of its first-round draft picks -- Marcus Banks and Kendrick Perkins -- on Thursday. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed. Banks, a 6-foot-2 point guard from UNLV, and Perkins, a 6-foot-10 high school center, both were acquired from the Memphis Grizzlies in a draft-day trade that involved Boston College's Troy Bell and Duke's Dahntay Jones. Boston selected Bell with the 16th overall and Jones at number 20 and then exchanged them for Banks, picked 13th, and Perkins, the 27th selection. Banks averaged 20.3 points, 5.5 assists and 2.8 steals as a senior. Celtics coach Jim O'Brien said Banks will be given the chance to win Boston's starting point guard job. Perkins, Boston's first-ever high school draft pick, averaged 27.5 points and 16.4 rebounds a game last year for Clifton J.Ozen High School in Beaumont, Texas.</div> http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0710/1578968.html
