<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">On Thursday the Trail Blazer rookies will head east to take part in the NBA's annual rookie orientation. They'll be gone for three days, and then will return to Portland to continue their training camp preparation. It will be a valuable experience, and the young people involved always speak highly of the orientation. I'll be interested to hear about this year's seminar from the Portland rookies. After speaking with Brandon Roy on Wednesday at the practice facility in Tualatin, I couldn't help thinking that perhaps he should be teaching the class to the rest of the rookies. As we said during the summer league in July, Roy is mature beyond his years, and appears more than ready to represent this year's crop of new recruits.</div> Source