Roy led us out of the dark ages, Tex just put us back there. I'm on the fuck em both bandwagon right now though.
No that's not true. Remember when we tried to medically retire Miles so we could get more cap space? It fucked us because he signed a couple of 10 days with Memphis and his contract came back on our cap space.
LAs Blazers career included voluntarily leaving the team in his prime and fucking the fans over with a rebuild so Roy wins by default.
Here's a good one. Has a premium franchise player ever retired a Blazer? Roy (whom I worship) had that aborted comeback with Minnesota) Clyde Drexler will always view Houston with more love than us. Whenever Walton is mentioned, it's with UCLA or Boston. LMA's future career path is on an arc similar to Frank Robinson with the Orioles. There is no franchise in the modern NBA with players who have no identity like Portland. For me, Sabas may be the ultimate Blazer. And he left us twice!
Not super uncommon for franchise players to play their last year's somewhere else. Think of guys like Rice, Montana, Karl Malone, Gary Payton, Barkley, Pippen, Jordan, Olajuwon, Barkley, Shaq....
I call BS. LA's career involved making it out of THE FIRST ROUND, something Roy couldn't do even with HOME COURT advantage. Sure Dame made the shot but Aldridge gave an all time franchise performance games 1-2 to make winning the series even possible. And y'all wonder why LA never felt loved in Portland, still to this day in Roy's shadow.
You know, I'm probably the worst person to talk but having a magnetic personality usually helps with fan appeal. Not being a jaded prick being bitter about the relationships of other player's with the fans. There was no reason LMA couldn't have been just as loved. If he wanted to be a leader he obviously read the wrong books .
Who gives a fuck if you get out of the first round if you're just going to leave the team the year afterwards. That's what pisses me off about LA and why he didn't have the better "Blazers" career. He was on a path to do BETTER things, but he voluntarily gave that up. As far as I'm concerned his time on the Blazers didn't exist because he built it up only to break it down. LA had plenty of love in Portland. He had MVP chants, he would have gone down as the greatest Blazer in team history had he stayed, he would have had a statue in the Rose Quarter, yet he chose not to so his career on the Blazers was bullshit. He was an "also ran" as far as I'm concerned.
Im not sure if they're the same scenario here. Brandon found out he had to retire, the Blazers then amnestied him. Him playing for the Wolves didn't impact the salary cap.
Both were fantastic - LaMarcus was around much longer, but for me, it was always Roy - While LMA was the best player on the team in the last couple of years, he needed Dame to shine for the Blazers to really succeed. Roy's teams were dragged by his dominant play, he was a true Alpha dog.
