to say hi to Kevin and thank him for helping me be proud to be a Blazer fan!!

We appreciate the diligent effort and hope you enjoy the incumbent rewards surely to surround our organization (Rip City baby)! We are proud to be fans of this era!! Thanks and can you say C H A M P I O N S H I P!!!

Hi Mr. Pritchard … thank you for what you’ve done for the Blazers … and for reading BE.

As for his BE identity? Here’s a previous guess from me : Some time ago (Subject)

I ventured that TP43 was actually KP. There were lots of similarities (and KP came right out and said he visited websites under assumed names). Has anyone seen a post from TP43 lately? Of course not, he’s much too busy preparing for the draft.

If it keep on Tradin’, the Team gonna break – BlueBooYay 6/21/08

by jorga on Jun 25, 2008 6:29 PM PDT

Hey, KP! Alright!

Thanks for all you’ve done to transform this team’s culture so far. The work isn’t done, but it’s been SO much fun to watch it in progress. We can’t wait for the season!

Oh, by the way – I’m rec’ing this post for you, KP.

Thanks for calling me back last year after I left a message on your voice mail begging you to draft Greg Oden!
You didn’t have to do that at all, but you took the time to call back a random fan just to say thanks for the support.
You are a class act, and the Blazers are lucky to have you.

including from me. I want to thank you most of all for your vision and integrity.

I’ll bet you get lots of laughs from the speculation, trade suggestions, and peanut gallery coaching that run rampant here. Thanks for participating. Blazers Edge suddenly just got a whole lot more interesting!

It just makes too much sense.

can you please bring the Blazers down under for a few games??? PLEASE….

if only you could figure out the whole Comcast thing… Im so tired about talking about it, and now that I live on the U of O campus I have CSN. however it is not by choice. Put some pressure on those guys to get it figured out. My family drives about 90 mins to get to a game and has done it through the thick and thin. We’ve been season ticket holders since 75 and we wore the merchandise when it wasn’t cool. We watch games on choppy 2 inch windows on their computer via the internet because we love this team with a passion and can’t stand to miss a game and Comcast won’t sell to us. The Blazers have the best fans in the NBA, and many of them are being punished.

Hey Mr. Pritchard. You’ve done an amazing job with the team.

I bet he’s the guy who plays with the trade machine all day to get 3 or 4 team trades.

You’re doing a great job and delivering a product that we fans are proud of. I am sure one day you might make a mistake and be burned in effigy, but not by me, I’ll remember what it used to be like and how things have changed.

You’ve earned the phrase “In KP we trust.”

Now pardon me as I go back to sipping my “Culture Kool-aid” (out of a Clyde Drexler Dairy Queen cup!)

I feel proud to be a Blazer fan again….I can feel proud of the guys that are on the floor. And that can be directly attributed to your work.
Keep it up!

You are doing a great job with this team. This is a team that has really grown up. I hated this team in the Jail Blazer era, and now I am a rabid Trail Blazers fan, and even wearing my Trail Blazers hat. Many thanks to you, for being a big part in my love of the Trail Blazers. Keep up the good work. GO TRAIL BLAZERS and Brandon for MVP!

Mr. Pritchard, you are the best GM in sports. You restored integrity and hope to the only franchise I’ve ever cared about when I never thought it was possible. You are the man. Thank you.

Thanks for making this team bleed awesomeness and style. If Paul Allen offers YOU a lifetime contract, please take it. Also if when OKC comes to town you could organize/enact Dave’s greeting suggestion here that’d be awesome. Thanks.

PS: When are you retiring Terry Porter’s jersey?

We all know Mortimer is KP.

I am glad you work for the Blazers. Keep up the good work.

Your pal,

Tom

Man thanks a lot for all the wonderful job, you make it easy being a blazers fan, and I want to thank you for taking huge risks to bring such a high quality team…. Thanks to your vision and dedication, but don’t stop the great work…
Oh and if you need a special translator/helper for nic batman, don`t hesitate to hit me, I`m your french guy for the job!!! Bwaahahaha…. no seriously, `cause he seemed a bit lost at practice the past couple days, anything to help, ya know… ;)
alright, au revoir et merci!

KP, first off I just want to say that you are the best GM in the NBA and I wanted you to know that. I have been a longtime reader of Blazer’s Edge but have never set up an account or posted anything until now. I didn’t want the opportunity for me to thank you slip away. I’m excited for the season to start and for you to win Executive of the Year!

Ditto nearly every comment already made. It’s nice to be able to trust completely that our GM is making positive moves and always pushing the team in the right direction.

I would love to take this opportunity to express my gratitude for the reintroduction of culture you have given our favorite professional team in Portland. Your standards for success are infectious and your focus on thinking beyond the here and now have me hopeful for the future generations of Blazer teams. I am confident that your impact will be felt for years to come. You should be proud of the integrity in which your vision has meticulously been realized. There are not a lot of people in sports, much less GMs in the NBA that I would feel more comfortable in leading our team.

Thanks Again and keep up the hard work, we are all counting on you.

What’s up? Love what you have done with the Blazers, keep it up.

I sometimes worry that you will not get GM ot Y because all of your moves have taken a while to come to fruition, stunning moves on draft day to acquire talent and hours of study to figure out which players were the best. It makes me wonder if voters will look back over the past few years and take notice.

I suppose either way, it is noththing but icing on the cake and the true accomplishment is this team that you have assembled.

The best players in each draft have been your picks:

’06: Roy, LMA, Gay are the head of class and you got 66% of them
’07: Oden (probably), Durant, Horford, and Fernandez you got half of them
’08: TBD but Bayless was my first choice since Dec

http://www.blazersedge.com/2007/12/19/181434/04

and I think that he will end up as a top 5 rookie, maybe not in stats due to our deep team, but I will bet dollars to donuts that Bayless will be a starter and high scorer in the rookie/soph game.

Great job and let us hope that your vision and hardwork will lead us to the promised land in the next decade+

Thank you for giving us back our team.

but it can’t be him. KP woudn’t have nearly the time to spend on the word creations we see coming from Morty.

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou! Thankyou for helping to build a team we can be proud to root for again!
P.S. In case you’ve been reading, sorry about that whole “Pritchslap” thing. I don’t use it anymore and encourage others to do the same. But, you get the idea right? You have almost gained mythological status around here. You might need to cut yourself (or tear off your clothes like Paul the Apostle) at the next home game to prove to us you’re human.

Many thanks from this blazer fan. We all really appreciate the hard work you have put in turning this franchise around.

I sometimes wonder that you don’t exhibit a “brain sprain” setting up some of the draft day deals you have become famous for!!

Keep up the good work !

- he would only be an infrequent poster ’cuz of time constraints

- he likely would not be promoting over the top expectations, perhaps even discouraging them.

- his posts would be well reasoned and sound

- he may comment in the negative on ridiculous but persistent trade rumors

- he would come to the defense of a Blazer related figure that was being chastised

- he of course would defend actions that were already taken by the team if they were being unduly criticized

- he would try to throw us off in some way, perhaps by posing as a female or a poster from Spain : )

- he would be compelled to post if he saw a need to dispel absurd and crazy notions, but probably only if they were becoming persistent

If I were a professional pro filer, which I’m of course not, I could probably come up with enough more to zero in on him. Actually, Dave fits my profile in most aspects except of course for the infrequent poster factor. So who else is out there that is kind of “Dave like”?

Anyone else have any thoughts along this line?

for cleaning up the jailblazers.

for being a genius

for making Portland Rip City again

and for positioning us to be THE dominant team in the west

for years to come.

Actually thanks isn’t enough.

but it’s the best I can do.