Part of the difference is that we didn't have twitter and reddit and chat rooms etc. to spread the rumors, ramblings, opinions and hysteria. We had the daily newspaper and the evening news that tempered things quite a bit in those days. But yeah, I don't remember being angry that Clyde was leaving but years later I kind of resented that he seemed to downplay his time as a Blazer.
I think a lot of us were happy for him, but that was before he wore a Rockets Jersey to the greatest 50 ceremony, and acted like he never heard of Porland
These guys were all over Fentress He backed off his bullshit immediately. Broussard and Parker dunked all over him.
I can't stand our local radio. It's like they're all on Dame's payroll. I turned off the trash on 620. So Fentress is used to going on our crap radio stations and beating up on our team, and then he goes on a national station and they slap him around.
* first order of business: New Orleans absolutely, without debate, has to find another destination for CJ, and if any picks come back for CJ they go to Portland * second: again, there's no debate, they have to include Murphy; they can keep Kira * third, and this is a little negotiable: They can keep two swaps and instead send a 5th pick then, OK, make the deal
Fentress just said, "Let me tell you what I'm hearing. Damian didn't just request a trade. Damian demanded and requested a trade to Miami. That's where he wants to go. So the Blazers can try to mess around if they want, but I'm telling you right now that if they do try to mess with him, it's going to eventually blow up in their face and it's going to blow up in the face of the team that tries to get in the way of him going to Miami." W....T.....F "I have asked if Philly and Boston get into this, which at least he would go to a contender, because let me tell you right now if they traded him to a non-contender, I would bet money that Dame would not show up. If you're worried about him not getting paid, the guy has already made 300 million dollars." If this dude is actually speaking for Dame, fuck him. That's fucking silly.
lol ya right. to be fair, we have been following dame for longer than fentress has been in town, so maybe it's forgivable he doesn't know Dame. first of all, dame HATES sitting out games. second, i don't think this idiot realizes how frugal and spendthrift dame is. he's not gonna flush a 200 mil contract down the toilet.
Seemed like Fentress was going in thinking he was talking to some of those national media like Stephen A. Smith who were towing the narrative that the Blazers aren't an NBA team that should try to win but are just a vessel for Damian Lillard, then he got surprised because these guys made sense.
It is not Joe Cronin's job to help win the Miami Heat a championship. If he gives Dame to Miami just to make Dame happy, we might as well hold a championship parade in Portland should they win. I don't think they will though, even with Dame.
it's amazing to me how Portland media can always find a new low first it was muckraker Dwight Jaynes; then it was muck-a-gog Canzano; now it's the drooling idiocy of Fentress you keep thinking it can't get worse...then it gets worse
