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Billups warns teams not to claim him off waivers
Someone, anyone, needs to put in a minimum bid for him, whatever that is with the amnesty rules. He sounds like a whinny child. Remember he threatened to retire if Denver traded him? Don't let this guy be a free agent this year.
Mike Rice's upside-down headband
by MattyDread on Mar 3, 2011 3:56 PM EST
on Blazer's Edge
Anybody else notice that Mike Rice, when he made a camera appearence, wore a headband with an upside-down NBA logo on it? Remember when players were doing this a couple years ago and the NBA put a stop to it? I was going to just write this off to Rice not even knowing his head band was upside-down, but then in the 4th quarter montage, he was clearly pointing to the headband with an upside-down NBA logo and sneering. Am I reading to much into this? Seems like Rice is trying to make a statement to me.
9 comments"We tried to attack him," Batum said. "We know that he doesn’t want to play defense."
Matthews and Batum were largely responsible for guarding Anthony during his 35 minutes of action. Anthony ended up fouling out on an offensive foul, bowling over Batum.
"Every time he goes left, I know he’s going to spin. Almost every time," said Batum, who added, "I was surprised they called it."
Nic's great for a quote even if you can't hear the charming accent in print. :)
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Here's my jack-o-lantern. I stopped after three strips, I think if you count the black in between the strips it counts to five. Anyway, I'm happy with it.
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Big Deals
Chad ford puts RLEC chances of being traded at 50/50. The whole "will other teams deal with us after the Miles email?" thing rears it's ugly head again here. Pretty ridiculous really. That's a lot of money in Reaf's "super-expiring" contract to snub you're nose at all because of one email. Any GM that would do that should be fired by their team. That's just not good business practice.
Behind the 8-Ball
Kenny Smith says it is Portland that winds up in the 9th spot and watching from home come the playoffs.
A question about pace
by MattyDread on Jan 6, 2009 3:07 PM EST
on Blazer's Edge
In his most recent blog entry Henry Abbot talked a little about pace and used Portland as an example:
Last night, with 9:26 left in a game against the Lakers, Travis Outlaw made a 3-pointer for Portland. He is credited with 3 points for that one possession, and Portland cements its reputation as one of the slowest-paced teams in the NBA. Thanks to four consecutive offensive rebounds, that shot came at the end of a possession that lasted an entire minute.
My question is: Is this accurate? Do they really count that whole trip down as one possession when the shot clock reset every time the ball was rebounded? I'm not a statistician, but if I was the one deciding when a possession starts and stops I would certainly have counted that as 4 (or maybe five) possessions. So does anybody know for sure? Is The Blogfather wrong on this one? Is there a universal way that this stat is kept, or does it vary from source to source?
Rudy vs. Bayless (updated with Poll)
by MattyDread on Aug 16, 2008 12:33 AM EDT
on Blazer's Edge
This really has seemed like one of the longest off-seasons ever. With the promising increase in wins from the season before, and the addition of some exicting new talent in the season to come, I have been chomping at the bit for them to tip the darn ball already and actually WATCH some new blazer games. But, since we are just under two months still till the first preseason game, all we have for now is speculation and discusion. So here is a topic I have been kicking around a little lately:
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