A Look At Where Six Of The Best-Known Jail Blazers Ended Up, and What They Have to Say About PDX

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    Or, maybe if you tell police you're a gangster, they believe you. :dunno:
     
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    Portland isn't accepting? Portland is accepting of everything except for Republicans.. that's a weird comment.
     
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    Related article:

    Portland Has Forgiven Tonya Harding. But What About the Jail Blazers?

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    I mostly posted it just so I could share that photo.

    The authors conclusion:

    "But two things can be true at once. Portland can be a racist city with a problematic attitude toward black athletes, and Ruben Patterson can be a piece of shit. One narrative doesn't blot out the other."

    BNM
     
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    This city worships the Blazers for the most part. Maybe if they would stop breaking the law they wouldn't have an issue?
     
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    Sheed could totally land a quadruple axel.

    How the heck can a city of over a million individuals be racist? Undoubtedly we have our share, but I don’t think it’s a widespread issue. Primarily white and lacking in black culture and community? Sure.
     
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    From pot use to naked bike rides, Portland revels in law-breaking.
     
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    One or two knuckleheads would have been fine. Getting that many at the same time made it tough to do anything. Ruben being a registered sex offender made the margin of error for any of those guys slim.
     
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    If they'd actually interviewed any of those six guys for the article, it would have been worth reading.

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    Last time I checked, Portland had had an NBA team for about three decades before the Jail Blazers came to fruition. And most all of its fan favorites happened to be young, big-city black players. This apparently deep-seeded bigotry was strangely not a big issue.

    This type of historical retelling is silly and reeks of 2010s social activist tripe. I think the common denominator with most (90%) of the criticism at the time was not Portland's latent racism but the embarrassing, boorish, and idiotic behavior from a simultaneously toxically overpaid group of guys that never recovered on the court from getting ass-rammed by Shaq and Kobe.
     
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    Interestingly, all but one of those guys seem to have landed on their feet.

    Sheed, who got the most heat, was IMO not a bad guy at all, a short fuse, but strong family man and involved in community. Patterson, I could not forgive.
     
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    I love Sheed. He got a bad rap here imo.
     
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    No, I don't think so.
     
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    Besides the yellow hummer what has Sheed done to be called a jail blazer?

    Be black and get techs?
     
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    I don't. Doesn't matter who it was. Just happened to be Donaghy. Sheed's temper cost the team wins. The ejections and suspensions added up. Sure would have been nice to have HCA in some of those series against the Lakers and Spurs. Would it have made a difference? We'll never know.

    But, that doesn't make him a Jail Blazer, just immature and selfish.

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    Umm you quoted someone who says allegedly....

    Drama starting? Did he say it or didnt?
     
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