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 Austin Burton
Trail Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard is already on the fast track to made-man status in Portland. Having used some shrewd (and some no-brainer) moves to turn the franchise around from the “Jail Blazers” of Darius Miles, Ruben Patterson and Qyntel Woods to a media-friendly exciting playoff team featuring Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge and Rudy Fernandez, Pritchard has arguably done a better job than any NBA front-office exec over the last 3-4 years. Read More »
Tags: Brandon Roy, Danilo Gallinari, Darius Miles, feature, Greg Oden, Jerryd Bayless, LaMarcus Aldridge, Qyntel Woods, Ruben Patterson, Rudy Fernandez, Stephen Curry, Steve Blake
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