This is my favorite fanpost of yours yet.

Let’s say KP did ‘crack the code’ of the draft and fiddled with its dinghy so that Bayless fell to #11… I am positive KP can look Bayless in the eye and say with utter conviction that he did no such thing and that those other teams are fools, DAMN fools no less, and that TOGETHER they will prove the entire NBA wrong.

Bayless leaves KP’s office energized, and feeling as one with KP. He’d take a bullet for his GM, and his purpose in life becomes being the bestest lil’ Bayless Drug Store he can be.

The next test for KP will be if he can ween himself off of his big draft day addiction…

He could simply look Bayless in the eye and say “Culture”, or tell Bayless that even though he’s a great kid ON the court, he’s an even better one OFF the court. And then he can say “And, uh, you know, the fun thing is, I pwned you, and that’s the fun thing about this process”.

If all else fails, KP can push the big red button on his desk and 8 feet tall Paul Allen-designed golden robots will barge in and beat up Bayless for insubordination. How do you think Miles qualified for medical retirement?!

Are there still Payless Drug Stores, or are they all RiteAids now? I still hear “Merry Christmas, from Payless, Merry Chrrriiiiistmmaaasss” in my head at 10 to the hour, every hour.

If Payless is around in a capacity besides their shoe stores, I smell buckoo marketing dollars that will more than make up for the loss in pay from his draft free fall.

One meeting with KP, and Bayless will be like puddy in his hands, even if he heard this sort of rumor was true. He’ll leave the office just feeling honored that KP even knew his name, let alone went through all this trouble to steal him away.

And then after he apologizes to KP for even bringing it up, a mysterious package shows up in his locker and has a swiss bank account number that MAGICALLY contains the exact amount to the dollar he is losing by not being a #4 pick. The Billionaire Fairy struck again!

That’s how we’re getting Chris Paul, by the way.

Mortimer

Another reason people need to stop worshipping the ground Pritchard walks on, lest do we forget where we came from too.

I think the whole thing is really very simple. There were 12 spots prior to our pick in the draft, and 47 spots after our pick. There are 29 teams other than ours, and the fact is that out of those other 29 teams, not one of them felt the need or desire to go after Jarryd Bayless and get him like we did. Not one team. They either didn’t want him, or they were complacent. Their scouts saw the same games our scouts did. They had the same access to background information that we did. If KP overhyped some of the players in this draft, and the rest of the GM’s ate that up, then don’t blame KP. Blame the stupid GM’s who like lemmings and sheep jumped over the cliff like all the other sheep in front of them. Good lord, these guys are professionals for crying out loud, and the way they got caught fumbling around on draft day has exposed their own incompetence.

Do I feel sorry for Sacramento? I do a little bit for their fans in the sense that their fans hopes were let down. Shoot, I’ve had about 7 consecutive years of that as a Blazer fan. However, if Jarryd Bayless was Sacramento’s man, then may I ask what exactly Sacramento did in order to get him on their roster? Well, they sat at #12 and crossed their fingers hoping he would fall. What did KP do? He ran EVERY scenario out prior to the draft, and had many contengency plans in place. KP did his job, and quite frankly he is the best in the league at what he does. If there is a GM who earns his paycheck in this league, hands down it is Kevin Pritchard.

One example I’ll give is poker. I love poker, I consider myself to be a moral person, yet poker is full of lying. Does playing poker then make me immoral? No, because the things that are taking place during a poker game are in the context and confines of how that game is structured, and everybody who is playing has agreed that those things are acceptable within that context. Sometimes it is the best liar who ends up winning a poker game. If I looked at the other players card’s in order to win, it would be wrong. However, the good poker players can use their betting, their raising of people’s bets, their table position, and the body language of their opponents to make an educated guess as to what cards their opponents have. Those things are perfectly legal to do, and the people who can do them well should be praised for their talent. The same is true for KP….yet there is a faction of people now who are suddenly tring to cast a shadow on him. Those of you who are doing this should really be ashamed of yourself. Perhaps you are bitter because you spent all of your money paying for your memberships to the Steve Patterson and John Nash fan clubs.

For the people on this site who are trying to make it out as if KP did something unethical or immoral, I simply do not see where you are coming from. Honestly, I think it’s silly. If KP lied, backed out of made deals, or illegally tapped into phone lines of other GM’s, that’s one thing. As it is though, I am really surprised at what I would consider to be borderline slander by some of you of Kevin Pritchard. If Jarryd Bayless was worthy of the #4 pick, then be mad at Seattle. If he was worthy of the #5, then blame Memphis. And so on. For whatever reason, they did not see him as a can’t miss player when their time to pick came. Their loss is our gain.

It has even been speculated that some teams picked a player thinking another team behind them in the draft order would try to make a trade with them. For all of you trying to criticize KP for his methods, it seems to me you should be criticizing those teams as well. After all, they are guilty of hijacking a player, and trying to keep another team from getting him….That is of course, unless they are willing to pay a hefty ransom. (Think Dr. Evil here)

So please don’t be hypocritical. Lighten up. Give thanks to God that we have KP instead of some of the alternatives we could have had instead. ** It’s good to be a Blazer.

............................... Don’t fret about his stunted career earnings.

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could have made the arms shorter though.

you probably should have worked out for more teams. That might have kept you from falling to 11.