ok that's a lame title but regardless, i was right  (and fatty, you did say it first)...memphis was the team to look out for this season...  So now the Lakers are the best team in the league...on paper.  so they got rid of the funniest player in the league...to watch.  And so they finally got a power forward that can play (malone doesn't count).  So What...  
i'm not scared anymore.  
It's different around here these days.  We have a team that plays the game the right way.  We play smart    Our teams of the past had talent but no brains.  Besides porter, sabonis and pippen (who wasn't really ours), we had a bunch of guys that had more talent than smarts, and it always bit us when it mattered the most.  Like i said, we're not like that anymore.  
So it's all good.  The lakers are, and will always be our biggest rivalry.  In years to come, the series we have with them will be epic and i hate to say it,,,they may even win it all sometime.   it better be soon though because we're coming.  We  got the big man now.  Bynum's pretty good but you can tell he'll never great.  He has chris webber eyes.  (for all that don't know, it's that look of  impending disaster, doom, and lack of confidence).   Dirk is starting to form some...
 i'd like to say thanks to everyone here who's  helping to make blazer fans better.  We had some of the worst fans in this city...dumb people who didn't know any better because they were...well...dumb.  We're much stronger now.  We  havent been jaded because of all the times where we fell just short.  It wasn't necessarily because we lost, but because of how we lost (You all should know what i mean when i say this).  The fans are better educated about the game now, and  they're not all homers.
Some Random thoughts,,,  
How cool is it that every game is on tv now.  I haven't had to listen to antonio harvey on the radio at all this year...What the hell is philadeplhia doing trading korver to utah, i really think they did this out of spite towards us...sirius satellite radio has an nba channel that has a talk show where all they do is talk about basketball for 3 hours and the blazers get a lot of love but...its not enough...Rudy F looks like the real deal, amlmart1 is awesome for telling us what's going on over there...and finally i gotta say that i can't wait till next season when fatty returns.  However, if by any chance we win it all this year, i think he should be banned permanently.