Outside of GS & SA

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  1. yenniedn

    yenniedn Transplanted Blazer Fan

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    It's a basic numbers game...even if we assume hot women are even distributed throughout the country (which they're not BTW but let's pretend they are), X% of a smaller city's population being hot is always going to be a smaller number than you'd find in larger cities like LA, SF, Miami, etc.
     
  2. EL PRESIDENTE

    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    LA is a bit overrated.
    SF is way overrated.
    Miami is mecca for hot women. Holy shit, the girls there made my jaw drop.
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Exactly! We're so young that we don't have to rush or do anything drastic that could hurt us down the road. We can take our time and let options present themselves!

    BTW welcome to the board!
     
  4. Scalma

    Scalma Well-Known Member

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    Durant

    GS: piggyback move

    SA: joining a bunch of old dudes and Pop will probably retire soon

    OKC: probably the most likely. Makes the most amount of money.

    POR: Similar to OKC but Dame is everything Durant wished Westbrook would be. Dame ain't afraid to let Durant go. And he's way more clutch than Russ. CJ is also better than whoever OKCs third option is.

    Everyone else is whatever
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    This shit is so true even for my age man... I'm 19 and worried that I'm running out of time. Sad thing is, the good ones end up with a tool (Crafts-Man) that glitters like golden vampire pussies... Im sitting here thinking if I should buy glittery makeup, slime my hair, and rock skinny jeans.

    Fuck that, guess I have to get rich...:sigh:
     
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    EL PRESIDENTE Username Retired in Honor of Lanny.

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    Durant also hates the Blazers organization. :MARIS61:
     
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    BonesJones https://www.youtube.com/c/blazersuprise

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    Durant hates playing the Blazers organization big difference.

    He might hate Kevin Pritchard as well.
     
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    nah...LA is way worse...all the hot young women are with old shriveled up rich men...biggest single man desert on the west coast. Difference is you're going to meet single women in different places in Portland like art galleries or tennis courts...in LA you'll meet them coked up at after hours parties and they'll dump you as soon as someone wealthier shows up with a pile of coke. Not sold!!!!
     
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    julius Living on the air in Cincinnati... Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Crafts-man?
     
  10. yenniedn

    yenniedn Transplanted Blazer Fan

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    Or Dewalt?
     
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    Wizard Mentor Wizard Mentor

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    What the area has appeals to me a great deal, but not necessarily FAs.
    Basketball reasons are secondary, sometimes even tertiary (#CarmeloWhipped)

    I love Oregon, but from the POV of an FA we have:
    • bad weather - rain
    • high taxes (not as good as Texas and other places)
    • "nothing to do" - clubs not open at 3 am
    • longest travel schedule of any NBA team
    • small media market - league bias
    • not hip - being seen at a party in PDX is not a thing/not glamorous
    • not hip, again - hippy liberal culture
    • few hot women - more cute harry-legged women than blonde-haired, blue-eyed scantily-clad.
    • bad geography - even the beach is cold and rainy.

    OTOH, we have:
    • great workout facilities
    • rich owner
    • great coach (players and agents around the league have noticed how much players improve under Stotts)
    • rabid fan base
    • good, young team that is on the way UP!
     
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    Yeah, but if you're wealthy or famous and don't want any commitments its great.

     
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    Dude, the whole NBA works on the concept of sidepieces.

    It doesn't matter what the women are like in Portland when these guys spend like 3 months of the season in other cities.
     
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    Yeah, but most of the years there ain't shit to do in Portland. Most would probably get bored as fuck.

    "Hey Nico, some girls from Lake Oswego are going to drink at our house later!"

    :MARIS61:

    "Oh, hot new restaurant in town. Oh, they don't take reservations and we have to stand outside for 2 hours? Great."

    "Let's go to Dirty and pop some bottles!"
     
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    You ever heard of craftsman tools? If he's a tool he's a crafts-man.
     
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    "Let's go down to the river. These hoes wanna smoke some herb"
     
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    blue32 Who wants a mustache ride?

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    lol that video... :)
     
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    That's hilarious and probably mostly true. I don't miss dating at all . . . well, most of the time. ;)
     
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    Maybe silly but did you ever read the Tim Donaghy book? He brings up some good points as to why Geography matters in the NBA and sports in general.
     
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