LOL ya, he's awful Canzano is an eight-time Associated Press Sports Editors (APSE) award winner. He's won APSE awards in four different writing categories (column, investigative reporting, enterprise and projects), with his most recent award coming in 2015 for column writing. [4] In 2010 [5] and again in 2015, [6] the Society of Professional Journalists named Canzano the National Sports Columnist of the Year. In 2009, Canzano was voted America's No. 1 sports columnist by the APSE.[7][8] In 2007 and 2008, theAssociated Press named Canzano the nation's No. 2 sports columnist among large-circulation newspapers, with Canzano finishing second to the Los Angeles Times’ Bill Plaschke both times.[9] [10]Canzano was recognized by The Press Club of Atlantic City as national sportswriter of the year in 2004, 2010 and 2014.[11][12] Canzano's investigative work and reporting about Brenda Tracy, the survivor of an alleged gang raped by four college football players, was recognized as the best sports writing in 2014 with a first place in the National Headliner Awards.[13] In 2013, Canzano won first place in Special Topic Column Writing in the Best of the West contest for his portfolio of columns that included a column on a soldier who died in action in Afghanistan and Canzano's own experience coaching a girls fourth-grade volleyball team with a player who has Down Syndrome.[14] In 2002, Canzano was named the nation's top investigative sports writer by the Associated Press News Executives Council[15] for his enterprise piece on Carlos Rodriguez,[16] a 21-year-old Dominican basketball star who was masquerading as a 17-year-old high school basketball player. Canzano is a five-time Oregon Sportswriter of the Year winner.
I haven't read the article, so I'm neutral, so I speak with authority on this matter: Canzano is full of shit.
Canzano isnt a blazers or ducks or beavers or whatever fan. He doesnt commit to being a fan so he can try to call the team out on bullshit and not write things only with rose colored glasses. Is canzano a douche? Sure. Is he a bully? I think so. Is he a bad writer? Absolutely not.
Yeah, I don't really see that Canzano is saying anything that we haven't said around here in multiple threads. This is a BIG summer for the Blazers. If Olshey can sell the Blazers' future to a big FA, or if he can work some trade magic to bring in a third major piece, the Blazers can become contenders. If not, they're stuck in meh-ville.
It's hard to be wrong if your entire article is just a series of obvious statements and rhetorical questions. A complete waste of time. Still, the statement, "Because when you can't sell nightlife, beaches and the ability to secure large-market endorsement income, you must sell free agents the chance to win a ring", is in fact inaccurate. Lillard has had a ton of success securing "large-market" endorsements. And the statement, "But Olshey -- who is great in a news conference -- has yet to make a move that lets anyone know what kind of general manager he really is", seems inaccurate considering last off-season's series of moves that resulted in making the playoffs despite losing 80% of their starting line-up. Moves that resulted in Olshey coming in 2nd for executive of the year. It's short-sighted to grade a GM solely on whether or not he's signed a max-contract player.
Especially when you think about (and I think it gets a little lost in the shuffle of adding the major FA this year) its almost amazing that he has been able to produce 2 players with star/superstar potential without doing so in free agency. Whether people want to consider him lucky or not he clearly has a good eye for talent. There is not a GM in the history of the league that has batted a thousand.
Lillard is a unicorn. Have we ever had a player close to him on a national level? Roy had some success, so did clyde, but aldridge did shit. Lillard has it all really. Hes just very marketable. Whiteside wont be as marketable here so we cant really sell him on something like that.
Idk? Hes said it on the bald faced truth multiple times that he has to stay objective. Ive seen him say hes a fan of these blazers yadda yadda yadda. But i still dont think hes a blazer fan.
I wonder how much pull Lillard has to with his endorsements to be able to get Whiteside's foot in the door on some of them too. Just wondering out loud if that could be a selling point. Although Im not sure how Lillard would even feel about that
Why do people keep forgetting that Derek Anderson was a pretty big free agent when we signed him? We stole him from the Spurs.
I guess there are two more unicorns in OKC then. Maybe unicorns aren't as rare as we thought. In today's NBA landscape it's much easier for stars in smaller markets to get endorsement deals. If you're marketable and good enough you will be marketable in Portland. A guy like Aldridge wouldn't have the endorsements Lillard does if he played for the Lakers.
There are two more unicorns in OKC. Aldridge was doing endorsements for mcglaughlin auto group. That shit was embarassing. Local advertisements will pay more in he LA markets. Yes there are more teams with players taking some of those endorsements. But look at blake griffin for example. He has the personality of a doorknob. And dude is plastered all over kia ads. Opportunities are more plentiful in LA, local ads pay more, and you spend more time woth celebrities. A guy like whiteside will be on mcglaughlin ads in portland. In LA? Maybe the same, but the opportunities will be more lucrative. Portland cant market shit like that to whiteside. Howard would probably survive just fine in portland because hes already established his star power the last decade.
Pardon me for parsing semantics, but I would argue that national endorsements are different than large-market endorsements. Superstars garner national endorsements, regardless of their location. When he says "large-market endorsement income", I assume he means local endorsement deals specific to that market, of which the most lucrative would be located in the largest markets.
Meh. Kenny anderson is our best signing because he was a two year prior all star. Our main hope is signing guys that would fit well and have shown interest (howard) or guys that are familiar with the west coast. I thought i remember last year reading that monroe being in milwaukee, which was far closer to his hometown was definitely a "pro" in deciding to sign with the bucks. Portland to him was like another planet across the entire usa.
Griffin has a ton more personality than Aldridge. I don't know why you think Griffin has the personality of a doorknob, but I don't think that's the case at all. Whiteside also has much more personality than Aldridge, and he would get more endorsements because of it.
Sure you can and Whiteside would believe he can do it as he has an irrational confidence compared to his ability but so do most nba players and they kind of have to to get to where they are. I think we are going to see ads where Lillard branches out to include CJ in them and Whiteside could believe he piggybacks on that.
