God you people are such ingrates! Roy played injured for us, likely saved the team from moving out of Portland, and was one of the top 5 blazers of all time - and top 3 in the league in his prime. He played for us until the point where doing so would threaten his ability to walk. It’s not like he just abandoned us after 5 seasons. but oh no. He doesn’t show up to watch blazer games after his retirement! ridiculous. Retire his jersey. How is this even a question.
I can go either way with this topic. I would "retire" his #7 because of his ROY season, All-Star seasons, bringing us out of worst W-L record years and his exciting games (Dallas Gm4 playoffs & Game winner over Rockets). I would NOT "retire" his #7 because his play for the Blazers didn't rise to the level that Drexler & Walton did. In ideal revisionist world, only Drexler and Walton would be retired in Portland's rafters. Many others are worthy of Honorable Mention or Ring of Honor status (Petrie, players from '77 team, Paxson, Thompson, Carr, Porter, Kersey, Duck, Buck, Cliffy, Strickland, Wallace, Pippen, Sabonis, LaMarcus). My two cents.
How is it a question? 1. Only 321 regular season games as a Blazer 2. Never got iut of the first round 3. Averaged 18 mpg A better question is why should he?
Averaged 18 mpg? Wtf are you talking about? newsflash buddy: the blazers rarely ever get past the first round. You can stop pretending that we’re the Celtics. Roy lost to far better teams, it wasn’t his fault at all. He was the sole reason we even made the playoffs and didn’t move the team to Seattle. blaming him for having a career ending injury is just sad.
Why in favor? His stats are almost identical to Geoff Petrie's and his #45 is hanging in the rafters.
he doesn't warrant a retired number. yeah, he was good, but didn't play for very long and didn't contribute a whole lot to our success as a franchise. also, don't ask Facebook people this question, they are kinda stupid and think he is a god for some reason.
Roy had bad wheels when he was drafted, and the rims were already coming apart when he used the media to pressure management into giving him that fat contract. Then he fucked us over. I've pretty much forgotten about Brandon Roy the same way he has never given a fuck about any of us.
true. if he really cared about any of us, or this organization for that matter, i would think he would be a part of it somehow.
No ones blaming him. Let's retire Odens number too.not his fault he only played 82 games. Bowie? Roy is 32nd in games played for Portland. Just not enough
