Samson: Why the Trail Blazers made a mistake

You’re joking, right? There are plenty of reasons why they might put a woman in the final round of interviews, the most obvious being they want to look like a progressive, open-minded organization that supports women in the workplace.

 

...not a joke. Unlike this nonsensical narrative that you're implying about the Blazers organization being some untrustworthy women hating workplace. Give it a rest already -- there are plenty of other professional (and amateur) sports organizations with an actual history of these types of behaviors for you to join a crusade against.

 

Was wondering, does Jody exert her will on team operations (i.e. Olshey)?

 

Doesn't seem like it. Seems like she cares mostly how well the team is doing as a business. Obviously sometimes those two goals match and sometimes they are in conflict with each other.

 

I'll not soon forget when Paul tossed in the Whitsitt towel, lamenting, "Our economic model is broken."

 

Like whether or not to go into the lux tax. There is a time to go over the cap and a time to not go over the cap. The Blazers have a top 5 player in the league. It's time to go over the cap, and the lux tax. Balance sheet be damned.

 

I miss Paul. I think the crux of Dame's gripes is that he's not sure where we are at. Are we all in or are we in the middle? If we're in the middle, he doesn't want to be here so we may as well bottom out and trade him somewhere where the team is all-in.

If Paul was still alive there is no doubt we would be all-in, or at the very least we would be after a quick conversation with Dame.

 

It's not just paying the tax, it's using as many future resources as we can to win now. The tax is unavoidable....well if you want to avoid it you should just trade Dame now.

 

This.

 

Some call it healthcare. Some call is spiritualcare.

 

I even learned how to pronounce it. CAT-er Waul-ing.

 

Shared this article before as Becky Hammon was one of the women chosen by Vanessa Bryant to go on TV after Kobe died and talk about him. She was close to the family and their girls.

Does this make her a “rape apologist” or do we just pretend she wasn’t close friends with Kobe, who was actually arrested and arraigned on rape charges before setting out of court for a reported $2.5 million?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cn...o-lost-a-real-advocate-becky-hammon-says.html

"He watched the WNBA, and I think as he had more time on his hands in retirement, he got more involved and was just beginning to be that voice for so many women that maybe didn't have a strong voice or as big or as loud or carried as much weight as his did, and still does," Hammon said before the Spurs hosted the Chicago Bulls Monday night. "The women's game lost a real advocate and someone who truly believed that women can do anything."
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"She loved it," Hammon said of Gianna's love for basketball. "You could tell. That's what so great about sports; the quality time that she got with her dad, the quality time that he invested in her, they found a common bond.

"It's a special bond; it's the father-daughter bond, and then it's this thing beyond that, which is sports, that they could connect on," she said. "The belief that he had in his daughter, the belief that he had in women's basketball – the appreciation he had for women's basketball, touched me, motivated me, inspired me."