I just figured out how to really put in links. So I figured I'd throw out the links of my post draft fame.
Article that quotes me
You Tube video with me in it
I'm with my friend Garen (Who's the one that deserves all of the credit for the brilliant "Welcome to the Garden of Oden" slogan. Maybe he should look into patenting that and maybe making some money off it.) at about 1:30 and then at 1:50 you can see my beautiful back side with my sign.
I figure this takes up a good 2 minutes worth of my allotment of 15.
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Waiting for the season to start
I don't expect anything to happen between now and the start of the season. That said, I do expect the Blazers to be shopping Jarret Jack, Martell Webster and Joel Przybilla HARD.
It would not surprise me one little bit if the Blazers started the season with a starting lineup of Jack, Roy, Webster, Aldridge and Oden with Przybilla getting all the backup big man minutes in order to better shop these three to other teams.
To get us a little excited about what's comin down the pipe the Blazers have been kind enough to release the pre-season schedule.
Link to Pre-season Schedule
This is a shoutout to Mike Staley. I'm hoping you can be there on the 21st in your best red and black to represent the home town team.
It would not surprise me one little bit if the Blazers started the season with a starting lineup of Jack, Roy, Webster, Aldridge and Oden with Przybilla getting all the backup big man minutes in order to better shop these three to other teams.
To get us a little excited about what's comin down the pipe the Blazers have been kind enough to release the pre-season schedule.
Link to Pre-season Schedule
This is a shoutout to Mike Staley. I'm hoping you can be there on the 21st in your best red and black to represent the home town team.
Friday, July 13, 2007
BLAKE IS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
According to the our friends in Denver Blake is coming back to Portland...
Rocky Mountain News Article
Most interesting parts of the article...
"The free-agent point guard said today he has agreed to a three-year deal with the Trail Blazers."
"He was willing to return to Denver but opted for Portland as the Nuggets were on the verge of finalizing a contract with guard Chucky Atkins.
"That's OK, if that's the direction they want to go," Blake said in a brief phone interview. "I just decided to go back to Portland." "
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This further fuels speculation that Jarret Jack will be traded. It's hard to believe that the Blazers would go into next season with Blake, Jack and Sergio (who has been dubbed the point guard of the future) on the roster.
Rocky Mountain News Article
Most interesting parts of the article...
"The free-agent point guard said today he has agreed to a three-year deal with the Trail Blazers."
"He was willing to return to Denver but opted for Portland as the Nuggets were on the verge of finalizing a contract with guard Chucky Atkins.
"That's OK, if that's the direction they want to go," Blake said in a brief phone interview. "I just decided to go back to Portland." "
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This further fuels speculation that Jarret Jack will be traded. It's hard to believe that the Blazers would go into next season with Blake, Jack and Sergio (who has been dubbed the point guard of the future) on the roster.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Summer League games on TV and Web
All of the summer league games will be shown FOR FREE via the web this year.
http://www.nba.com/summerleague2007/scoreboard.jsp
If you're lucky enough to have the nbatv network they are showing some of them. But most of them are tape delayed. Example: tonight's Blazers vs Celtics game is at 7 pm but it won't be on nbatv until noon tomorrow.
http://www.nba.com/summerleague2007/scoreboard.jsp
If you're lucky enough to have the nbatv network they are showing some of them. But most of them are tape delayed. Example: tonight's Blazers vs Celtics game is at 7 pm but it won't be on nbatv until noon tomorrow.
Monday, July 2, 2007
A GOOD trade coming?
People are universally saying that the Blazers got hosed in the Zach Randolph deal. Maybe Kevin Pritchard doesn't care so much about getting hosed in that deal because he had a separate much better deal.
Pritchard was interviewed the night of the draft by Sports Business Radio and there was one interesting statement.
http://www.sportsbusinessradio.com/audio
Click on the play button, wait for the audio to load and skip up to the 33:44 mark where he starts talking about Tom Penn and his role in the draft night maneuvers. What Pritchard says is...
"We've made a trade and it hasn't been announced yet. And we can't talk about it and it probably won't be done for another 7 to 10 days yet. But it's a good trade for us and it allowed us to gain a pick and a player and also a uh uh uh uh an acclaimed player uh who we feel very good about and uh we wouldn't have been able to do that without his expertise"
Some people are speculating that this is the Pheonix deal in which we know we're getting the 24th pick (Rudy Fernandez) and James Jones. And then there's another part of that deal that hasn't leaked yet where we will get this "acclaimed player" Kevin speaks of. Crazy people are saying Shawn Marion, but I dare not dream.
I think it's more likely that it's a completely separate trade that nobody has leaked anything about yet. I expect to hear something some time next week and I don't know why but I've got a hunch it'll be Wednesday the 11th.
And as an added bonus here's a video of Stephon Marbury flipping out about getting Zach Randolph...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYY338_JgvI
Pritchard was interviewed the night of the draft by Sports Business Radio and there was one interesting statement.
http://www.sportsbusinessradio.com/audio
Click on the play button, wait for the audio to load and skip up to the 33:44 mark where he starts talking about Tom Penn and his role in the draft night maneuvers. What Pritchard says is...
"We've made a trade and it hasn't been announced yet. And we can't talk about it and it probably won't be done for another 7 to 10 days yet. But it's a good trade for us and it allowed us to gain a pick and a player and also a uh uh uh uh an acclaimed player uh who we feel very good about and uh we wouldn't have been able to do that without his expertise"
Some people are speculating that this is the Pheonix deal in which we know we're getting the 24th pick (Rudy Fernandez) and James Jones. And then there's another part of that deal that hasn't leaked yet where we will get this "acclaimed player" Kevin speaks of. Crazy people are saying Shawn Marion, but I dare not dream.
I think it's more likely that it's a completely separate trade that nobody has leaked anything about yet. I expect to hear something some time next week and I don't know why but I've got a hunch it'll be Wednesday the 11th.
And as an added bonus here's a video of Stephon Marbury flipping out about getting Zach Randolph...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYY338_JgvI
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