I see that Lillard is getting the "tour of popular point guards" similar to the "tour of popular centers" we had scheduled at the beginning of Oden's rookie year.
Personally, I will be giving him a standing ovation. So I was at the Houston airport the other day and saw Clyde's store (BTW is that airport or a mall) . . . could not find one trailblazer reference in the whole shop. You live in Houston, can you do something about this.
great. most inflated tickets of the season due to B-Roy AND everyone in town for thanksgiving from college looking to watch games (like me). :MARIS61:
Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Brandon Roy... the best players abandon Portland and their fans eventually. Just another reason to realize that professional sports is a business, and we are all fools for thinking these players treat it any other way. Rasheed Wallace at least was honest about it: CTC. Jerry Seinfeld said it best: we all root for laundry.
The schedule has eight national tv games for Portland but only seven for Memphis. Even in terms of NBATV games, on opening day, Portland/LAL on NBATV takes precedence over Memphis/LAC, a rematch of one of the best series in the playoffs. Is Portland really that much of a bigger market than Memphis? (I get that the Knicks, even though they're destined for another mediocre finish in a mediocre conference, have something like 25 national tv games, including ABC games, but can't Memphis at least get thrown a bone for ONE appearance on TNT or ABC? Are we that unwatchable?! Apparently the Blazers are twice as entertaining. I guess this is another year I'll have to buy League Pass...)
As a true hoop fan, I've bought the NBA LeaguePass for the past 8 seasons. And yes, I don't know what the numbers are, but downtown PDX is 10X bigger then Memphis...... even though that has nothing to do with being on national TV or not.