Quick is and has always been a petty asshat who reports everything through the lens of his own personal agendas and vendettas and loves to make himself part of the story. I would take all of this with a large grain of salt.
I was surprised to see recently that Travis Kelce missed his rookie year with MF surgery on his knee. He's barely missed a game in the 9 or 10 years since. (I think only season-ending games that starters were being rested with playoff seeding clinched.) That sort of undermines everything I've come to believe about MF surgery.
There is nothing going on. For years now Blazers got players, that refuse to play. It surely was Covington and Powell. Seems like Payton too. In the past Harkless wasn't happy and obviously LaMarcus had a problem. Seth Curry was happy to go. Hart can say all the right things, but he wasn't going to sign. Someone mentioned Larry Nance. One could make a case about Trent Jr. I don't remember what was about Henderson. There was ONE good free agent signed by this team in recent years. It was Carmelo, after refusing to play in Portland for 3(?) years, coming here just to stay alive. And he was happy. He could "run with the boys". It was fun for him with zero accountability. No other good free agent ever went to Portland and that's strange if you read, that basically every star asked would love to play with Dame. You can put it all on weather and small market and that is probably sole reason for the fact, that no one wants to play for Blazers really. The weather factor.
I say, this thread title is wrong. It should read: Quicks’ relationship with Blazer organization is falling apart.
MF isn't the first tool from the tool box Docs typically reach for... it's a bit of a hail mary move for when things have already gone South. Those complaining about it not working out for Roy are forgetting he'd already lost a good chunk of his knee cartilage by the time Portland drafted him, which was the only reason he'd slipped down to them. STOMP
there was a story that came out sometime after it became apparent that Oden was a bust. Might have been shortly after KP was fired. It said that one of the Blazer drafts picks as red-flagged by the medical staff..."do not select; very high risk"....because of severe medical issues. And another had been yellow-flagged as having significant medical issues..."high risk", The red-flag was Roy and the amber-flag was Oden. KP ignored the medical staffs and chose Roy and Oden anyway
