If Roy has played his last game as a Blazer

I say hell no.

Portland has retired too many numbers as is. The only numbers that should be retired are Walton and Drexler.....MAYBE Lucas. That's it.

 

Just because the organization made a mistake and retired the numbers of a lot of the 77 team doesn't mean they are justified in retiriing Roy's number now. The only two jerseys that legimately deserve to be retired are Drexler and Walton.

 

Did they retire Jim Paxsons number? He was a multiple time all-star in Portland.

 

Exactly. No

 

I agree as well, the Blazers have been adsurdly loose with their numbers retired criteria.

Based on old criteria, Roy should have his number retired.

Based on a more traditional, and sensible criteria - NO.

 

One could/should argue that Petrie, Lucas, Paxson, Porter, and Buck would all be in the mix with Walton and Drexler for "greatest" title.

 

Using the standard of our past, yes, Roy should have #7 in the rafters someday. No street names please.

 

No. I'd rank Porter ahead of him and Lucas for what he accomplished. Roy is in a class with Paxson and Vandeweghe however.

 

For game 4 of the Dallas series yea.

In all seriousness we have retired to many jerseys and Roy deserves to be in the rafters more then a few of the ones hanging up but we have retired to many for not very good reasons, so if you just look at his basketball resume for u then I think the answer is no. If you take into account that he almost single handily changed the reputation of the blazers and took us out of a dark period in Blazers history, then that has more weight then his ROY 3 All-star appearances, All NBA third team, all NBA second team.

 

Cliff Robinson was our leading scorer on multiple teams that made the playoffs and lost in the first round. I'd never consider him close to worthy of getting his numbe retired. It's not Cliffs fault he hit his prime following a period of title runs but Roy hit his prime after the dark years.

Too bad we can't unretire some of those old players, I mean Larry Steele? Change them to being part of the "Wall of Honored Champions" somewhere in a corner so it looks ok PR wise.

Absolutely no to Roy being retired; he had an all-star season leading the team to 41-41 followed by one complete season where he carried the team but the result was a dissapointing first round exit. You shouldn't get your number retired from great play in only a single losing playoff series.

 

No.

 

I'd say yes, with a slight hesitation given the short time he played for us- but he was our best player for 4 years and led us out of the woods back into being a good team.

 

he is more than a player, he was a shining bastion of light leading us out of the depths of the fireswamp

he made everyone proud to be a blazer fan again, that counts for alot id say

i say yes

 

Damn right you retire his number! End of story!

 

No.

Edit: In fact, the more I think about it, the more ridiculous it sounds.

 

No. I agree with those who say only Walton and Dexler should have their numbers retired by the Blazers.