Seems like a pretty silly way for Blazers Edge to bill the story snippet. Tony Parker didn't say anything negative about Portland. The writer, Mitch Lawrence, decided to characterize the trade talks as a threat (based on the teams) and then characterize the lack of a trade as Parker being duly frightened. He didn't even use the standard "According to sources close to Parker," so it seems extremely unlikely that it's anything but Lawrence's fictional account.
"Mitch Lawrence" in the byline is as far as I needed to get in that story to know that I needn't read on.
So you killed off OL to get more action over here eh? If I stick around I'm going to tell everyone you invited me here. Oh ooops, I just did!
Hehehehe. I ain't no ordinary rookie though as I'm like the highly touted foreigner that made his way to the other league.
Hey, it's Cup! Now we just need to get Lanny, Beast, and Vipa over here and that will be pretty much everybody from O-live
Interesting. Except a year ago Parker admitted that if he were to be traded, he wouldn't mind heading to Portland. That article then had quotes. This one doesn't have quotes putting down Portland, just your surmising.
