Many of us at the largest Blazer message forum listened to Crapzanno’s interrogation and subsequent remarks about you yesterday. Clearly, he understands there are certain details you cannot speak of regarding free agents and trades. In light of that, his questions were for the most part insulting and idiotic. His subsequent remarks about you being “stupid” and so forth were grossly unprofessional and well over the top- and he knows it. I had cancelled a subscription to the Oregonian a couple of years ago due to his lies and back stabbing ways, and now a large group of us will no longer tune into 95.5 and clearly if we do for some other reason will make it a direct point to NOT patronize any advertisers to that station. Enough is enough and Crapzanno has once again insulted people unfairly. Mr Pritchard, we feel you handled yourself with your usual class and dignity and under the circumstances, remarkably well. If for some reason you do not agree to be interrogated by Crapzanno again or find time to drag his ass into an alley and beat him down, please understand you have the overwhelming support of many dozens of fans. Your Truly Blazer Prophet and other fans at the S2 sports message forum sent this to KP & JC as well as the station mamager at 95.5
One of the many things that annoy me about Canzano is his incessant posturing as one who is in the know on everything and morally superior to everyone. If he were a real journalist, perhaps he'd be interested in why the Blazers might not want to give Roy a max dollars for max years contract. On the surface, it's a total non-brainer to give him a max extension. No one player could be asked to do more for his team both on and off the court than Brandon Roy has in his time in Portland. You would think that his contract negotiations would be limited to, "Do you prefer to sign in blue or black ink, Brandon?" Since that doesn't seem to be the case, why isn't it? Are there financial issues that we're not aware of? Is there a concern about Brandon's knees or other health issues? Has Brandon asked for something outside of the ordinary? Something else going on? It would seem to me that an award-winning sports journalist ought to be a little more on the ball about trying to ferret out the reason behind the Blazers' seeming reluctance to do the obvious. Guess it's easier to just play pop goes the weasel.
Pritchard is as slippery as they come. He acts "sincere" and straightforward, but there's always a layer of lies underneath. I guess that comes with the territory, when you're bluffing other GMs all day long on the phone, but it's still as annoying as hell.
I think we need to distinguish how "slippery" he is when dealing with people outside of the Blazers organization, and how he deals with people inside the organization. He's not perfect, but KP has done one hell of a job with this team.
I know your heart is in the right place, but if you're going to boycott someone for calling someone else stupid, don't you think writing a message calling that person "Crapzanno" (weird spelling by the way) is a little bit hypocritical?
Not so sure, that it is lies, more like concealed truth. Not "Casting pearls before swine" is a good thing seems to me.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't we lose the "cap space" if we resigned LaMarcus and Brandon right now? I thought the point was to use it to either sign a free agent out right or do a sign and trade where we could take more money back. At that point we'd go over the cap when we signed LMA and Roy. Is the cap space we're using based on last year's salary or next year's salary?
I heard an interview in L.A. on espn radio with the Lakers GM, and the local hosts kept asking question about the ongoing talks with Lamar Odom. It went exactly like the KP interview. A lot of talking but nothing new was said, despite the efforts of the hosts. The difference was that the show hosts treated the GM - who was giving time out of his day to talk with them -respect, and didn't say things like, 'You sound down and defeated' and act like assholes. It's called professionalism. It's almost like Canzano wants another public fight with another Blazers GM. The guy is a total loser and should switch careers and join TMZ. That way he can stalk, make fun of, and annoy those more successful than him to his little hearts content.
No. The actual extension doesn't go into effect until July 7/8, 2010. One more year of rookie cap space for both of them.
You're wrong, which is a good thing this time. Roy and Aldridge already are under contract for next season and due 3.9 and 5.8M respectively... they are negotiating for extensions starting the season after this next one. STOMP
