Sketch Pad with your host Ty, with special guest Channing Frye.

My friends and I have been life long Trail Blazer fans. In recent years a buddy of mine actually became friends with Channing Frye while he was here in Portland. Channing is a class act, he agreed to do an interview with us to help support our film collective (www.rainbreak.com) and launch a new idea of ours.

What you are about to see is hopefully the first of many comical interviews with professional athletes.

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The following Nicknames are film titles of my favorite actor Paul Newman, with the exception of one (Robert Redford only) film.

Brandon Roy "The Natural"

"Cool Hand Luke" Babbit

Wesley "The Hustler" Matthews

Rudy Fernandez "Exodus"

Joel "Hud" Przybilla

Andre Miller "Butch Cassidy" & Armon Johnson "The Sundance Kid"

Dante "The Towering Inferno" Cunningham 

Greg "Sometimes A Great Notion" Oden

LaMarcus Aldridge "Somebody Up There Likes Me"

Nicolas Batum "Paris Blues"

Jerryd "The Outrage" Bayless 

Elliot Williams "The Left Handed Gun"

Patty Mills "When Time Ran Out..."

Marcus "Nobody's Fool" Camby

Jeff Pendergraph "Slap Shot"

Hombre means man...Paul Allen is "Hombre"

Nate McMillan "Winning"

Kevin Pritchard "The Color of Money"

Rich Cho "A New Kind of Love"

Blaze "Blaze"

2006 NBA Draft "The Sting"

NBA Championship "The Prize"

2010 Free Agency "The Long, Hot Summer"

"Our Town" Portland, OR 

0 - amount of times I doubted the Blazers

1 - Center left in the line-up.

2 - Blazers traded this year in-order to get the one remaining center. (Thanks Blake and Outlaw)

3 - Free-throws that BEAT LA.

4 - Technical fouls called on the Blazers against Dallas.

5 - Fans ejected from the Dallas game (to my knowledge)

6 - seed in the West we likely end up with.

7 - The Natural...Get Well Soon.

8 - Games Patty Mills has played in.

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13 - Trail Blazers that have missed games due to injuries.

14 - Different Blazers that started a game this year.

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19 - Different Blazers at some point this year.

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34 - the age of Andre Miller

36 - the age of Marcus Camby

37 -  the age of Juwan Howard

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50 - Wins in 81 games

52 - points by Andre Miller vs. Dallas (and reasons to be happy we don't have Turkoglu)

81 - more games Martell Webster will have played this year than last.

307 - Total combined games missed because of injury. (Does anyone know this number for OKC?)

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4 - days until the Playoffs and games we have to win. GO BLAZERS.

Add your favorite number or fact of the season.

"Who is scheduling the games around here?"

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