Clickbait warning. Its a good article. http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/12407958/nba-portland-trail-blazers-deserve-better
Personally, I don't like the poor, poor, pitiful Blazers fans routine. I don't view the Blazers as any kind of a failure for not having won a title in the last 38 years. Only a handful of teams have won in that time period and many other franchises have never won a title. The Blazers have been close a couple of times and I'd sure love to see them get over the top. Yeah, we've had more than our share of bad luck with injuries, but if you dig into the record, you can find that most teams have dealt with career-ending injuries and bad draft picks. I'm just rooting for this team to stay healthy and go into the playoffs on a tear. After that, let the chips fall where they will.
Adande is an old-line Negro Oreo cookie who criticizes any black rebels. I'm not clicking. But I'll commence crying, just to join the crowd.
"oh shit an entire espn article just about the blazers?" "oh wait never mind they are just trying to hype for television ratings tonight"
Threads like this are why I love this forum. I come here every day to read about my beloved Blazers and I learn something new almost every day. For example, until I read this thread, I had absolutely no idea Mags even has a man card. BNM
I didn't read this as a poor "lovable loser" fanbase article; more that we have some goddamn personal dignity in the face of challenges. The point (which is hugely salient) about us not suddenly expecting a championship out of Our Guys because Jerome passed away was a good one. We know life and basketball, and we know what's important to us. A championship will be the reward for playing great ball.
I was skeptical of that comment but I checked and as it turns out only 11 cities have won since 1977, and one of those cities no longer has a team, so I suppose it could always be worse. Portland does have a championship, but not during my life time... it would sure be nice to experience that. But at the moment I'm more concerned with beating the Clippers tonight.
Or, since the start of "Showtime", 9 franchises in 35 years. 2 of those have won only 1 title, and 1 has won 2, so that means that 6 franchises (LA, BOS, DET, CHI, MIA, SAS) have combined to win 31 of the past 35 titles. This, IMO, is why the "championship or bust" mentality is pure folly (says the guy with "It's Championship Time!" under his avatar...)
We're one of the luckiest fanbases in the NBA. Few teams have been as consistently good. It sucks not to have repeated 1977, but there are a lot of teams that would trade histories with us.
