Not the coach though!!!!! He's from SEATTLE!!!!! The most bestest franchise in the history of the NBA!!!
I'll give you a clue to make it 50-50. You're either 0 for 4, or 4 for 4. Gotta go. My 22 year old superhot wife is beckoning so hard she's falling out of her clothes. Love is all you need. Nothing you can say that can't be sung. Pritchard paid millions of Paul Allen's dollars to enable each of these 8 trades, usually $3M each. Only 2 (Roy and Batum) were worth the money. #6 Roy for #7 Foye #27 Sergio bought for cash #24 Rudy and James Jones bought for cash #30 Koponen for #42 Byars #11 Bayless for Jack and #13 Rush #25 Batum for #33 Dorsey Ruffin for Diogu #31 Pendergraph for Sergio and #38 Brockman
I specifically said they weren't all $3M. These sites don't tell the exact amount. The Oregonian has it mostly wrong. A better source follows. http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/2010/05/nba_draft_will_the_blazers_loo.html http://www.prosportstransactions.co...9-08-01&PlayerMovementChkBx=yes&submit=Search
In almost all the trades, Pritchard keeps secret the fact that he paid cash. The secret comes out days later, and the exact amount often is never disclosed. For example, I was surprised to learn, when Sacramento traded Sergio to New York, that we were covering his salary this year. I thought our trade with Sacramento was cashless. So I look back at the articles of the time, and I see why I thought that. http://blog.oregonlive.com/blazers/2009/06/serio_rodriguez_moved_in_draft.html No mention of cash or paying his salary. It came out later, I don't know when. Pritchard disclosed it so quietly that I didn't notice it in articles till Sergio went to the Knicks. Anyway, that's why I don't have an authoritative list of which cash amounts were $3M. But that's the number articles usually give, if they tell the number at all, when they announce later that cash was involved. It's like getting the number of dead Iraqis. Bush started a new policy of keeping the body count secret to avoid bad publicity. The numbers are top secret, but most estimates start at 1 million and go up.
Wow, what cover-ups! DAYS later? That's long after Pritchard has transferred the money he scammed to offshore bank accounts and gotten out of the country. This Pritchard is an evil genius. How can he continually pull the wool over the media's eyes for full days?
A few days is all he needs to garner a burst of praise from his worshippers for his genius. Are you saying it requires longer than that for an intentional omission to buttress his reputation? Haven't you ever left something off your resume? Anyway, I was just explaining why the exact cash amounts are sometimes unavailable. Sometimes I just barely find out that cash was involved at all, so I'm not picky that I can't find the exact amount. But safe to say, since Allen allows the maximum $3M, Pritchard will dispense with haggling and just pay the whole $3M. Why bother when his owner is so generous and the reporters are outside waiting to hear the announcement from his sainted voice.
For a career that spans more than a few days, probably. I leave a lot off my resume...no one needs to know about the orphans I kill. That's on my own time, not company time. But I don't leave things off my resume for a few days, no. Do you feel that if a politician hides a scandal for a few days, he's basically safe? Not that spending Paul Allen's cash for prospects is a scandal...it's a good idea. Still, if we accept your premise that it's a source of great shame for Pritchard, I think it being public record a few days later is pretty much just as devastating to his overall career.
