By Jack Jensen
These days, the business of basketball is good for the Portland Trail Blazers. However, not too long ago, the City of Roses tagged their only pro sports team by another name: the Jail Blazers.
The era of the Jail Blazers is an interesting and lengthy time period, through which it extends from J.R. Rider’s heyday, until really 2005. Whereas, the Blazers had been branded with this label for a while, I chose to further examine Burnside’s best from ’01 through the ’04 season. Read More »
Tags: Arvydas Sabonis, Bonzi Wells, Brandon Roy, Chris Dudley, Damon Stoudamire, Darius Miles, J.R. Rider, Jail Blazers, Kevin Pritchard, LaMarcus Aldridge, Maurice Cheeks, Mike Dunleavy, Nate McMillan, Nick Van Exel, Omar Cook, Paul Allen, Portland Trail Blazers, Qyntel Woods, Rasheed Wallace, Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje, Ruben Patterson, Scottie Pippen, Shawn Kemp, Zach Randolph
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By Gerald Narciso
Yesterday’s “Where are they now?” post on Troy Bell generated a lot of discussion of our favorite has-beens. We saw all sorts of names: Dajuan Wagner, Scotty Thurman, Harold Miner and even David Benoit. So we’re going to do what we can to dig up information and catch you up to speed on everyone.
One name I saw come up that really struck a chord with me was Omar Cook. Read More »
Tags: Andre Barrett, Dajuan Wagner, David Benoit, Dick Vitale, feature, Harold Miner, Omar Cook, Scotty Thurman, Taliek Brown, Troy Bell
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