Trade Powell to Portland!

I thought precisely the same thing. Glad I'm not alone.

 

Not worth it. I just forget that people make a living out of going around and stealing other people's content. Pretty sure that's how buzzfeed even exists at this point.

 

My post got more likes than your post.

 

Jarred Kelenic of the M's farm system is another example...

 

Actually, norman looks like a combo of Kevin Duckworth and Ken Norman (Ken played in the 90s, probably best known as a Clipper).

 

There's a story about DD and Kal taking Norm shopping in here which is also great.

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/posts/the-north-norman-powell-toronto-raptors-basketball-nba

One of the strange things about this trade was that I’ve been in Tampa for the regular season as a Raptor — and then I got traded right as the Blazers were about to play in Tampa against the Raptors.

So, like, I still had my place. Still drove my normal route to the hotel where we’d get tested. But now instead of going to the left, where the Raptors test, I had to go to the right, where the road team tests. And instead of heading to Level 3, I had my team meeting on Level 2. Just little stuff like that. It was a weird feeling, man.

Actually, here’s how weird it was: I purposely came in a little late — just out of the hope that I could avoid having to run into people and go through more emotions.

But of course that move never works.

A few minutes after I got there, a bunch of the Raptors started showing up.

And I think that’s about when it really started to hit me — like, Oh, man. This is real.

This is really goodbye.​

 

One thing the article doesn't really get into is how damn hard Norm has worked to improve. He's just entering his prime and is playing the best ball of his career. When he was a rookie I think he barely made a shot for his first two months--now he's a deadeye.