Most times when a player is traded they immediately look at the schedule to see when they can extract some revenge on their former team.  A player is seemingly driven to prove their previous employers wrong, to show they made a mistake.  Not Vin Baker.

Baker was traded from the Seattle Supersonics to the Boston Celtics this offseason after the once-All Star encountered some serious playing form issues.  After it appeared he may never gain his old form after putting on large quantities of weight the Sonics severed their losses by dealing the forward to the Celtics for very little in return, Boston hoping that Baker would be their answer for a solid inside presence.

Instead the Celtics have simply acquired the problem, Baker missing the meeting between his new and prior teams with what he referred to as 'lightheadedness'.  The announcement came after Baker stayed overnight at New England Baptist Hospital for tests on Tuesday night and was released yesterday morning.  His agent, Aaron Goodwin, Baker complained of heart palpitations and light-headedness following a Jan. 18 game in Milwaukee and decided to go in for tests following Tuesday's repeat episode. A Celtics official said last night that Baker never reported the earlier episode to the team.

``He had some anxiety attacks, but I really don't know if that's connected to this,'' Goodwin said. ``All we can do now is wait for the test results.''

Ex-teammate Gary Payton shook his head at the suggestion that Baker, under the stress of facing his old team in a diminished role, might have succumbed to the pressure.

``You can't say that,'' he said. ``You don't know that.''

``It's disappointing to see people criticizing the way he's been playing,'' added teammate Shammond Williams, who came across with Baker in the Seattle trade. ``You make sacrifices and he's been making sacrifices. He goes out and plays defense, and when he's asked to score he scores. He's a good person, first of all, and he's accepting a role to help this basketball team. Just because you're in the media, you don't have to write or say negative things about individuals. You can write good stories without saying anything negative.''