Sheed was more hated because he acted like a fucking child on a nightly basis, on our television screens.
I hate both with a passion, but I almost respect Sheed more because he didn't act differently depending on where he was. Sheed was and is an ass, but he was like on and off the floor to people he didn't know. Damon is an ass that tried to make peple believe he wasn't, while Sheed was an ass that didn't care what people thought.
I can't take anything Damon says seriously. He tried sneaking weed wrapped in TIN FOIL at an airport, he's seriously lacking in the IQ department.
Interesting classification system. Are there any examples in Blazer history of the type of ass who acts on but not off the floor to people he knows but not to people he doesn't know and tries to make people believe what he really is but who cares what people think? Maybe Buck Williams or Lamarcus Aldridge?
I think it was more that Damon was never viewed as that talented so "fans" didn't scapegoat him when the team was eliminated. His continual heart to hearts with Quick earned him a free pass from the O's witch hunt. Sheed got the Techs, but Damon was a total me first bitch on the court and the biggest bonehead/embarrassment in the history of the club off it... easily my least favorite Blazer. STOMP
I do not and did not hate either Damon or Sheed. The only Blazers I really disliked to that point were Ruben Patterson and Bonzi Wells. Dontonio Wingfield turned out to be a total scumbag but that did not surface until after he was through playing on the Blazers, or any other team.
You've got to be kidding. Bigger than Qyntel Woods? Pulled over for speeding and showed a cop his rookie NBA card, not to mention his shameful connections to dog-fighting. Bigger than JR Rider? Sold cell phones out of the trunk of his car and busted for smoking pot out of a pop can. Bigger than Zach Randolph? There's the drag-racing on Broadway, the "attending a strip club while on bereavement leave" and Z-Bo's connection to a gunfight in Indiana... Bigger than Ruben Patterson? Assaulted a man in Cleveland and had to plead "no contest" to a sex abuse charge in Washington. Bigger than Rasheed Wallace? Threatened a referee on the Rose Garden's loading dock and had to sit one of the longest suspensions in Blazer history (if not the longest), as a result. To say nothing of the embarassing "both teams played hard" episode, and his participation in the Stoudamire "smoking hummer" incident. I won't argue that Stoudamire as a player had major problems - he was too short to guard anyone and he took too long to set up the offense and was too eager to shoot (and too likely to miss) to be a great offensive point guard. But off the court? Sure, he had three pot instances I can recall - the "foil" move at the airport, the "smoking hummer" on I-5, and the mysterious quantity found at his house in LO. All are dumb, but I don't think they're nearly as embarrassing or disturbing as what was done by the five players above.
The ref Sheed supposedly threatened was Tim freaking Donaghy. Does anybody still believe that accusation was legit?
Yelled at a crooked ref, had some fun with the media, and smoked pot after a game. Doesn't strike me as particularly embarrassing or disturbing behavior. barfo
Damon and Rasheed have done more for the needy than any other Blazer players in the team's history, without advertising it. 2 very classy guys, and awesome players IMO.
his 3 pathetic pot busts combined with his regular myopically stupid finger pointing ("ummm ya know") interviews and he was a total train wreck off the court while a Blazer. Without him as a source, Quick doesn't have nearly as much material that eventually snowballed it's way into the national press creating the Jailblazer era. Several of your listings are weak as they happened when those players weren't Blazers... are you currently embarrassed by having Camby on the team? The hometown Trailblazer hero set the impression making the club the go-to punching bag so anything like JR selling cell phones years later gets lumped on to the Jailblazer nonsense. I'll stand by my earlier statement... dude was the all time Blazer douchebag STOMP
You think Camby doesn't smoke pot? Or Roy, LaMarcus and Greg? Not that there's anything wrong with that, there isn't. But get a clue.
good grief dude. Smoking pot on the DL is fine by me... I couldn't care less. Damon's legacy is quite different. Do me a favor and respond to what I wrote STOMP
what do you mean by legit? I recall why Wallace was tossed by TD that game. He flipped a nonchalant bounce pass to Tim after a Blazer TO. Apparently Donaghy didn't see it coming and it bounced harmlessly off his side. He overreacted and T'd Wallace up. Sheed didn't even know what was being called initially and then predictably went ballistic and was tossed. Of course post betting scandal Donaghy has made statements on how he and other refs got off on baiting certain players (he specifically mentioned Wallace) and T-ing them up over nothing. This seemed to be a case in point example The loading dock encounter is all here-say so I don't really know whats what. My understanding is that they saw each other and Wallace made some crack about getting his money back on the BS tech... the league fines the player for each one but the front office reviews them and sometimes judges the call bogus and not worthy of the fine. Donaghy came back at him and things escalated to the point Wallace was physically threatening him. If thats roughly the case, dirty ref or not doesn't really matter. Players can't be threatening refs with a beat down, period. Suspension earned. STOMP
Thinking back on the starting lineup in 2000 of Steve Smith, Scotttie Pippen, Rasheed Wallace, Arvydas Sabonis, and Damon Stoudamire...what an awesome lineup, except at one position. Damon was the weak link then, and he was pretty much the weak link on every team he started for there after. Rotten defender, over-dribbled, mediocre passer, couldn't throw a post entry pass, couldn't finish at the rim, shot a really low percentage...he was great if you need somebody to throw up a desperation three pointer with the shot clock winding down, but that was about it. Damon's career basically ended at 31 when that second stupid contract ran out. Sheed is still going at 35, and probably won't retire for another couple of years. On a side note, Sheed has earned over $150 mil in his career. Damon $100 mil. Magic Johnson $18 mil. Mind blowing.
A video of Damon's 54 pt outburst surfaced on Youtube last month. [video=youtube;oXvcu2r6X88]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXvcu2r6X88[/video] shame we lost that game.
