I have been wondering what Rudy Fernandez could do to make this Dunk Contest interesting. I have heard comments like using a trampoline, rainbow soccer trick or alley oop. I have a couple of ideas of my own and I am encouraging fans to post some of there ideas for Rudy! I'll throw my ideas out there.

Dunk #1 Rudy dribbles the ball from half court with his feet like it is a soccer ball, he then flips the ball up with his foot towards  the rim and he  jumps up and grabs it and reverse slams it.

Dunk #2  Rudy sets the ball on his foot, kicks it up toward the rim, uses his head to hit the ball of the backboard and then catches it and jams it!

 I hope we get some good ideas or creative ones!

They just annonced the All Star Ballot for 2009 and I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw that Greg Oden was on the All Star Ballot! And Joel Pryzbilla was not on the ballot! How is Greg Oden on the all star Ballot and Joel Pryzbilla is not?? I just want some feedback on this because I don't understand how Joel keeps proving himself and out rebounding alot of people, and Greg Oden has played a  few games in two years!! So what do you have to do to get on the All Star Ballot?? Besides be a number one draft pick? Joel's field goal percentage is great! His rebounds are at 8.4 per game only because of foul trouble! His minutes played are 26 per game.He is currently 25th in the NBA in rebounds. He averages 2.7 offensive rebounds per game. I think thats definately deserving of being on the All Star Ballot over Greg! If you look at the guys who are on the All Star Ballot line up for centers, Joel has better numbers than some of them. So what do you think? I vote for Joel Pryzbilla!

I live out of state in Kansas! I was wondering why the Blazers and Suns game was blacked out on nba.com broadband free preview on the internet? I want to bye the league pass from dish network  but I am wondering if anyone knows how many Blazers games will be on this year? I guess I need to know that the Blazers will not be blacked out on the league pass every game. I hope someone has a good answer for me. Thanks for the help.
Shannon

John Canzano called us to tell us that our story about meeting the Blazers team in Kansas City is getting a huge response and he wants evryone to hear it! We are going to be on air live at 3:25 pm on
95.5 THE GAME check it out Blazers Fans! We will tell this great story TO ALL THE BLAZERS FANS. You can also check out the article he wrote about us on oregonlive.com
Thanks, Shannon and Megan
GO BLAZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!                                                                 GOBLAZERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We would love to share our story with all of the Trail Blazers fans and Portland Oregon. We want to thank the Blazers President Larry Miller for making this experience a dream come true. We recentlymoved from Portland to Topeka Kansas . We are extremely excited about this up and coming Portland Trailblazers team this season. We were able to go to many games last year and the games we did not make we watched on t.v.. However, this season we were devastated for we knew it just wasn't going to be the same. No Portland,No Rose Garden! Just thousands of miles away from Blazer Nation. We discovered the Blazers were going to be playing a pre season game in Kansas City  Missouri one hour away from from our home, no words could describe how happy we were. We had one final oppurtunity to see our team play in person.Little did we know a much bigger dream was about to come true! We were walking around inside the sprint center before the game. We were dressed in our blazer gear. Then a guy in a suit walks up to us and I could not believe my eyes, it was Larry Miller the President of the Blazers. We talked Blazers and told hom our story about moving to Kansas from Portland. We asked him if the team was staying all nigh and he said no they were leaving right after the game t go to the airport. H e then asked us where we were sitting and we told him upper level. Then Larry reached in his suit and asked us if we wanted two tickets in section 105 but they were not together and he said you probably want to sit together though. We said yes we did and tanked him anyways.Larry then said that if we can find him down by the court after the game that he would give us passes to go back and  meet the Blazers. We knew we had to find a way down to him because thiswas the chance of a lifetime! We moved down to the 100 level in the 4th quarter. The ushers were everywhere and the lady told us we had to go to our seats and that we could not stand there. With 2 minutes left in the game we started heading down the stairs as a few fans were exiting. We were so nervous our hearts were racing. We didn't stop until we found some empty seats behind the Blazers bench. When the game endeede we jumped up and made our way over to Larry Miller. When our eyes met he smiled and reached into his suit and handed us 2 passes to wear around our neck. We thanked him and made our way through the tunnel and to the outside of the Blazers locker room. We stood by about 5 reporters including Jason Quick of the Oregonian. We watched Nate McMillan give an interview. Afterwards we introduced ourselves to Nate. He talked about the Blazers with us and said Portland misses us. He said he was happy we got to see them play again.  Nate answered all of our questions he was in no hurry at all.We told him we were going to go see them play in oklahoma city in february this year . He said that would be great. He even told us the hotel they were staying at in Oklahoma and told us to call him. Nate opened up his briefcase and gave us a sharpie to get autographs with. As he signed our hat ,Greg Oden walked out and Nate said we better catch Greg because his autograph is worth alot more than mine. We all laughed. Nate was great!! So we ran after Greg Oden and shook his hand and got his autograph. We met Shavlik Randolph,Luke Jackson,bayless,Sergio,Hill, Kevin Pritchard. Last but not least , we got to meet Travis Outlaw and LaMarcus Aldridge. They were both friendly and alot of fun. We walked them through the tunnel and to there bus.We tried to convince Travis to enter the Slam Dunk Contest this year. We saw only 3 Blazers Jerseys in the crowd of 12,000 plus. We were lucky they spotted us and allowed us to go backstage. This goes to show you that the Blazers Organization believe in there fans as much as we believe in them. We would like to say thank you to the Blazers for making this experience one we will remember forever. Thank you to all of the Blazers players for being so nice and giving us autographs.Thank you Nate McMillan for your time and thoughtfulness. Thank you Larry Miller,President of the Portland Trail Blazers, for going above and beyond for us. Thanks for turning one special night into a dream come true.
GO BLAZERS!!!!!
SEE YOU IN OKLAHOMA!!
Thanks,
Shannon and Megan