Portland Fans Hit By Giant Red Beach Ball
That would be a hell of a souvenir.
(Hat Tip, Josh)
Comments (1)30 Teams / 30 Hours: More Than GODE’s Sidekick
You know, one can never have too many NBA season previews. (That’s a lie.) Which is why we present a new series to add to the list: The Basketball Jones’ 30 Teams in 30 Hours NBA Season Preview. Yup. It is what it is.
4:00p / Portland Trail Blazers: One good thing - if there truly are any - that can come out of Greg Oden going down, is the fact Brandon Roy will have much of the spotlight this season in Oregon. It’s time to appreciate this guy’s game. I watched him only a hand full of times through his injury riddled campaign, but each time I was left thinking, man, he can do so much. His craftiness reminds me a bit of Pippen, the way he quickly squirms in to gaps in the lane. Nothing crazy athletic about him, just a knack for quickly dissecting what’s in his view. He wasn’t talked about enough last season in my opinion, even though he captured the ROY. This year will be different.
Tas says: 3rd in the Northwest
Skeets says: 3rd in the Northwest
(Don’t forget to check out Monday’s NBA season predictions podcast. Bye for now.)
Comments (2)Are Portland-To-Phoenix Flights Cheap Or Something?
Disclaimer: I have no idea how old this is. If you’ve already seen it, consider yourself a bigger YouTube loser than I am. But the announcer’s “wow” call after the second guy wets it from 50? Amazing. If I owned a cell phone, that would so be my ringtone.
Comments (4)NBA Prep Work: Blazers
As part of The Basketball Jones extensive ‘06-07 season preview, I’ve been awarded the honor of going “one-on-one” with a representative from all 30 NBA teams. (No, not really.)
Today I spell with Portland Trail Blazer Joel Przybilla. Our conversation follows:
ONE-ON-ONE WITH … JOEL PRZYBILLA
J.E. Skeets: Joel Przybilla.
Joel Przybilla: Hi.
Skeets: Joel. Przy. Bill…
Przybilla: Um…
Skeets: … Ah.
Przybilla: Oh, there it is.
Skeets: The Przymiester.
Przybilla: Okay…
Skeets: The Przy-dizzy-dent.
Przybilla: Wow, that’s a new one…
Skeets: The Przy-dolla-dolla-bill-ya’ll–.
Przybilla: –OK, that’s enough.
Skeets: Joel, I enjoy your last name immensely.
Przybilla: Thank you.
Skeets: What do you score for that? Twenty, twenty-one points?
Przybilla: Excuse me?
Skeets: Points. Scrabble. Your name.
Przybilla: Oh, um… haha, I don’t know actually.
Skeets: No, wait, it’s more than twenty-one. Yeah, like the ‘Z’ and ‘Y’ is fourteen points alone, right?.
Przybilla: Ha. Yeah, I guess it is.
Skeets: And what’s a ‘P’? Three? Four points?
Przybilla: Um, I’m not sure. I don’t play much Scrabble…
Skeets: Got to be three.
Przybilla: … more of a Monopoly man myself.
Skeets: No, no, let’s figure this out. OK, I think a ‘P’ is worth three. Yeah. And an ‘R’? That’s got to be one. ‘Z’ and ‘Y’ is fourteen. So what are we at? Eighteen?
Przybilla: Um… I’m not sure. But look, I really don’t have much time here so, maybe…
Skeets: Can I borrow that pen?
Przybilla: Um… yeah, but like I was saying, I really got to get–.
Skeets: –Yoink! OK, so we got four, one, fourteen… yup, that’s eighteen. Wow, it’s WAY more than twenty-one!
Przybilla: Yeah, great. Hey, maybe we could figure this out later?
Skeets: What’s next? ‘B’?
Przybilla: *Sigh* Yes.
Skeets: Holy shit, dude. Can I buy a fucking vowel? Hahaha…
Przybilla: Please stop this.
Skeets: … Hahaha. OK, I think a ‘B’ is three as well. That’s twenty-one. What’s next?
Przybilla: An ‘I’.
Skeets: A vowel! Nice. So one more. Twenty-two.
Przybilla: I think I’m going to get going…
Skeets: Another ‘I’?
Przybilla: Huh?.
Skeets: There’s a second silent ‘I’ in there? Weird. Very Slavic-esque of you.
Przybilla: What? No, no, I. Me. I AM going to get going…
Skeets: Oh, so what’s next, an ‘L’? How many then — one or two?
Przybilla: *Sigh* Points or how many?
Skeets: Both.
Przybilla: Przybilla is two L’s. I don’t how many points an ‘L’ is. I told you already, I don’t play Scrabble…
Skeets: ‘L’ has to be worth one. Think of how many words have L’s in them. Pull. Troll. Smell. Bell…
Przybilla: Hell.
Skeets: Right. So that’s two more points. Twenty-four.
Przybilla: Oh, how fantastic.
Skeets: And finally one more ‘A’ … Twenty-five points, dude!
Przybilla: Now I can sleep at night.
Skeets: Damn, that is a shit load of points, eh?
Przybilla: Yup.
Skeets: Congratulations.
Przybilla: Whatever.
Skeets: You throw that on a triple word score… GAZOOKS!
Przybilla: Are we done?
Skeets: Yes. Joel Przybilla, I want to thank for sitting down and talking with us today.
Przybilla: Wow…
“Elementary, My Dear Watson”
Well it’s not exactly that blockbuster deal we were all looking for, but the Sonics, Nuggets and Blazers have got us started with a little, kinky three-way action today. Yeah, the trade breaks down like so:
Sonics get: Earl Watson, Bryon Russell and a future 2nd round Denver pick.
Nuggets get: Reggie Evans, Ruben Patterson and Charles Smith (who!?).
Blazers get: Voshon Lenard’s expiring contract ($3.5 mil), Vitaly Potapenko and some more bracelets for Ha Seung-Jin.
Three-way Deal Brings Watson to Sonics [ESPN]
Comments (2)Happy Valentine’s Day
Ha Seung-Jin’s E-Card [Blazers.com]
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