I am so sick of this passive aggressive "small hipster backwoods flannel cracker shithole" narrative that NBA social media paints Portland into. It used to be a background noise but now it's a siren. Green Bay has the Packers. San Antonio has the Spurs. The Mariners are just about to sign to maybe the best Japanese baseball player ever specifically because they are a SMALL MARKET West Coast franchise. Every team has difficulties marketing itself until they are finally successful with that one big name free agent that makes a difference. It's just the NBA talent pool is small and it is the single most hyper-marketed sport in the world. All our failed FA attempts are magnified and it feeds this overgeneralized narrative that we harm our players' national profile. But Dame's brand isn't suffering and he's known for being who he is precisely because he plays in Portland. The chip on his shoulder. Dame Time. The same way Diego Valeri is known for being the Timbers go to guy. (Who just won league MVP BTW.) Maybe we should he looking elsewhere to a GM who is so quick to point how shitty the local valet parking is when selling all the fine points of this wonderful town????
btw, considering YOU are tunchi, he was "around" before you were a member, so yet ANOTHER give-away that you are him. lmao.
That’s what he gets man, local sports media is so ass and guys like dame deserve better, not somebody like quick who being around him and the team so much should know better or know what he means by the tweet, instead adds fuel to the fire. Fuck those guys man