Sometimes i wonder why some people look down upon sports fans, saying how they're losers. Then I read threads that started off talking about a guy who died and it turned into another one of the gems we create here. There's a time and a place for this behavior, I would hope by the time you're over 18, you realize it's not in a thread about someone's death.
I had a chance to meet him several times when I was in high school. Before moving to Mater Dei high school, I played high school ball with his sons, Leroy and Leron. Good guy
Who deleted Secret Agent's post? Inquiring minds want to read it. Shouldn't delete posts. Always remember the board motto, "Anything goes." Live by it, die for it. LeRoy Ellis played with many legends of the 60s. His one Blazer year was his 9th year in the league, so he was no rookie here. They needed him and shouldn't have traded him to the Lakers. He wasn't the guy who won the Lakers 33 in a row, but he held the fort while Chamberlain rested. That summer, they traded him for Bill Bridges, who had been a star PF, and Jerry West and Chic Hearn kept saying, "This is a guy who can really help us." But Bridges with the Lakers kept getting injured because he was old. Meanwhile Ellis started on the worst NBA team in history with 9 wins. When Philadelphia with Ellis played the Lakers, he had a quote, I can't remember the exact resentful words, to the effect that he felt betrayed by his so-called friends, the Laker GM and coach, for dumping him from the top of the league to the bottom.
When you read about secret agents, you must read between the lines, and not believe the official story.
I don't believe the Secret Agent suicide. I think Sly knows the truth. LeRoy Ellis was the father Of 1991 1st-round pick LeRon Ellis. Ellis lived and died in Portland. In Greg Oden's 5 years as a Blazer, I wonder whether he ever met former Blazer centers like Ellis or Walton. I bet Ellis wanted to know him. I have the feeling Oden lived in hiding and avoided Oregon except when Pritchard woke up from a snooze and made him fly here. The local media should have called Ellis for quotes a few times each season. Think of the stories he had about rookie Wes Unseld taking his starting job on the Bullets, playing with West and Baylor early in their careers, etc. Instead the local media just writes the same old daily negative garbage about not having a GM, etc. Who cares. When Ellis died yesterday they lost a LOT of good material.
Secret Agent Man deleted his own posts and told me via PM he's going to take a break from the forum for a little while.
Oh yeah right!!!! A secret agent just decided to go away? Way too simple!! You need a much more complicated story!!! You killed him and you know you did!!!!
He lived out in tiny Columbia City, my uncle owns townhouses out there and said he'd always see him around. Kinda hard to miss, he's probably the only black man in Columbia County.
