1) The Blazers feature Brandon Roy, a native Seattlite and UW star.

2) The Blazers are coached by former Sonic’s coach and player Nate McMillan.

3) The Blazers starting SF hails from Seattle.

4) As does the Blazers owner.

As an ex-Sonics fan, these are enough to help bridge the gap from his dead wife to his new wife. That the Blazers happen to be a 20 something hot as hell young team is more than enough to keep his interest once he’s committed to following the team.

... on how he and I can get invites to watch Blazer games at Paul Allen’s house.

As a fan of Mr. Alexie’s writing and his screenplay “Smoke Signals,” I’m excited he’s on the bandwagon. The man knows his NBA ball very well so I don’t really think he needs much help.

RLEC –

Both teams played hard

Odenize

SPAM –

Bustabucket

Rip City

Courtesy of Dheepan:

Sergio Rodriguez: The most popular 3rd string point guard in the history of the NBA. Known for smoking cigarettes and alley-oop passes. And dating Rebecca Haarlow. What’s the update on that by the way? When Sergio commits a turnover it is either because he is making a play happen or because the other player did not possess the BBIQ to even fathom the ideas swirling around Sergio’s head. It is never Sergio’s fault, it is the corollary of Jarret Jack. It is always Jarret Jack’s fault.

Also courtesy of Dheepan:

Tony Luftman & Michael Holton: The worst half time show in the history of human civilization. Luftman is known for his bushy eyebrows and horrific chemeistry with Holton. They are noted for creating the following exchange before game recaps around the league,

Luftman :Tell them what they won!
Holton: A BASKETBALL GAME

At the same time as Ben’s post (which is better than my fanpost anyway), I wrote a fanpost on the same subject. Not sure which hit the site first, but it matters not. As main page articles beat fanposts; the latter is now deleted by yours truly.

There were only 4 comments anyway—two about the duplicate nature of the posts, and two about the merit of Alexie’s writings.

—he has all he needs here at Blazers Edge to write the next Tonto and Lone Ranger Fighting in the Sky.

That is: These are the Portland Trail Blazers. You’re welcome to come down and be part of the fun, no matter how much you may have cheered against us in the past. We will welcome you as brothers.

But: There is to be no speculation or suggestion concerning moving the Blazers up North. No matter who the owner, coach, or starting wingmen are. There are to be no suggestions that this is the Northwest’s team, and that the cultural capital of the Northwest is Seattle, and that Seattle is richer/bigger/more cosmpolitan than Portland and thus more “deserving”. We don’t pretend that the Hawks and the Mariners are a shared region-wide team—they’re Seattle teams, and even though we cheer for them and often trek up I-5 to watch games at Safeco and Qwest, we know to which city the teams belong. Seattle.

To put it another way-just ‘cause your wife or girlfriend or whatever leaves you for another man, doesn’t make it cool for you to go hitting on your buddy’s wife-no matter how hot she may be.

With that ground rule established, welcome aboard!

to engineer trading Blaze for Squatch.

Pulling that off would get him a lifetime membership to Blazer fandom.

For example, this is NOT Travis Outlaw.

THIS is Travis Outlaw.

The Lakers are our biggest rival. Always have been, always will be. Sorry Sonics, Jazz, Sactown, etc.

It comes down to this. If the Blazers finish the season 3-79, and the 3 wins were against the Lakers, I’d have to call that a pretty good season.

... but he must hate, despise, and outright loathe everything about the evil L-kers, placing them on a level close to that of Clay Bennet himself. Also that L-kers itself is an evil word that must never be completely spelled out for fear of creating a rift in the basketball-time-goodness continuum.

If you don’t know Portland well, you should know you can park anywhere downtown for free after seven, and take MAX lite-rail free to the stadium. Thus, avoiding the cluster when the game is over and parking fees…while simultaneously subjecting yourself to downtown restaurants and bars for post game.

Bring your lungs and ear plugs. During the win streak last year ( the Denver game to make it 10 comes to mind) the place got so loud it was deafening. I expect a season of ruckus crowds as RIP CITY has been waiting to explode…I think we all held it in a bit naturally while waiting for G.O. time, so the excitment we’ve been building for YEARS is ready to be fully released.

~Get excited for RUDY! We don’t know how this Euro star’s game will translate tothe NBA off the bat, but we are excited. Check YouTube regularly for his highlight videos and tune into watch Spain in the Olympics to see how he does!

Welcome to RIP CITY! I’m sure you’ll enjoy. Plus you get to spend more time in our fair city…which is nicer than Seattle.

Just another fair weather bandwagon fan. How convenient that his favorite team just happened to move half way across the country. Man, the lengths people will go, to try to act like they aren’t just jumping on the Bayless bandwagon. I want to know where he was when the REAL Blazers fans were watching Roy get the first pick in the draft. I bet he has no idea how exciting that was.

At the first mention of Sam Bowie…
Then learn to emphatically deny any wrongdoing on the Blazers part claiming that “We already had Clyde Drexler, and Sam Bowie was good in college” even though in your heart you know it was bad..
Then learn to well up with anger at it and let it dissipate into depressing self-loathing.
Then think about Greg Oden and feel all better.

Also any mention of Oden and Bowie in the same sentence needs to be dealt with quickly and decisively. Not allowed.

Park by PGE park, catch the MAX and ride free to the Rose Garden. After the game ride MAX back to PGE park and hit The Agency (new Ultra Sports Bar, right across the street) along with thousands enjoying the post-game euphoria.

He is the hottest player in the NBA.

I mean, they love the NBA, but no longer have a team, I welcome with open arms, just the same way I welcome bandwagon fans that are jumping on board here in Portland everyday, but I want all of them to know that fans like myself and Blazerfan1 will be here during the good times, and then through the eventual rebuilding in about 15 years after we had our 4 title Dynasty, so if your going to start rooting now, be prepared to root for life, that’s the type of fan I want coming to the games. Oh, and if you don’t sit in the upper bowl Alexie, you must at least for one game, to see what the Maniac’s sound like.

And another thing, getting good seats this year is going to be harder then ever, get yours now! I already got mine! And I am not content! Man, I should work for the Blazers!

Blazermaniac Andy

when the Blazers score 100 points

Tom,

Too true, I need to re-evaluate my fandom, I thought out doing those silly Lakers 3 peat would be enough to invoke some feeling of optimisim from my fellow edgers, but now I realize I need to adjust my expectations to match what Greg himself thinks he will win as far as championships are concerned. 15 championships. That’s what is says on the cover of my ESPN the magazine that I have been keeping in a plastic sleeve waiting for a signature after that 15th championship. And after all, he’s a chameleon who is going to change his playing style to match what we need, some nights, 30 points and 20 rebounds, other nights, 30 Points 20 Boards and 10 Blocks. After all, variety is the spice of life.
As far as my Blazerfan1 dealings, I can only pray I get another chance to prove my maniac-ness! Tom, PLEASE, I need your blessing and my ebay account has been taken over by my brother to sell pocket bikes! (do you need one) What is a boy to do!? Opening night is fast approaching and now I have work to do to raise my stock!

Any advice? Outside of getting a Blazers pinwheel tatooed on my forehead? (thought about it)

Andy

is he don’t like PJ Carlesimo either.

Is it just me, or does PJ look like that snotty EPA bureaucrat in Ghostbusters? The one that Bill Murray said had no (first name of ex Oregon Ducks coach Harter)?

Bob Whitsitt is the devil.

I’ve read several of Sherman’s wonderful books, and one thing that stood out for me was his recounting of how some non-Indians make fools of themselves by hanging around Indians, as if something will “rub off” onto them. Quite a few folks of European background have been enchanted by the myths and romance surrounding American Indians , and they act rather pathetic by wearing beads, trying to talk like Indians, and showing up at powwows. Well, Sherman, I hate to say this, because I truly admire you as an author, but the idea of you rooting for the Blazers makes me want to hurl. What the hell are you thinking? Do you think you can become a Blazer fan by buying a ticket? No way, dude.

I’m a Portland native, born in 1950, and brainwashed forever into hating Seattle and every one of its stinking teams. You’re welcome to think what you want, but stay the hell out of the Rose Garden! It’s bad enough that Paul Allen, carpetbagger of the decade, owns our team, and that so many people in Oregon root for the Seahawks. Kindly do your duty by agitating for a new team in Seattle, where you (and they) belong.

Portland is and always has been a provincial, smug, grimy little burg, and it deserves to be left alone by sports refugees who couldn’t keep the wolf away from their own door.

Is he required to learn the history of the Blazers? He already has a team history.

1. Vancouver is not an armpit – it is the gateway to the promised land (Portland, OR)
2. You must hate Blaze with the fire of a thousand suns
3. Escape from New York has better pizza than all the pizzarias in Seattle combined
4. You can find all of your (Sherman Alexie’s) books at Powell’s
5. Travis belongs to AnnTheFan and Nic belongs to BlazerFan1, so hands off!

Don’t be so resentful.

in KP we trust.

he found BE immediately. I’ll bet Henry put him up to that.

He does need to know that not all Blazer fans hate Seattle. I was a Sonic’s fan before my husband was transferred here. Some might say I was disloyal for not staying a Sonic’s fan, but when a team consists of Bill Walton and friends how can you not switch? I went to high school in Seattle, even to the UW a few summers and still have a lot of room in my heart for that city. It took me many years to start calling Mt. Hood “my mountain” since I’d grown up in the shadow of lovely Mt. Rainier.

He also needs to know that at one time (and maybe it still holds) that the Blazers had a larger percentage of female fans than any other NBA team. Therefore, there must be no assumptions that all faceless fans on BE are young males.

And since Ann has already claimed #25 (I originally wrote $25), and Sophia has #88, I will reassert my grandmotherly adoration of the one, the only #12. And note that he is NEVER to be referred to as LA. He is LMA. LA is that place down beneath us where in dwell the hated L.k.rs

...and say, “So who is your author in residence? We have Sherman Alexie!”

So this is kind of Blazer related. One night last season, after a Blazers win, your boy Blazermaniac Andy was walking back through downtown in search of a tasty pastry. Of course his feet lead him to the Portland Icon that IS Voodoo Donuts. Upon purchasing a Blazer Blunt (hey, we all remember the good old days when we were one of the ‘boys’ if we were puffing douja out the window of a yellow hummer, or in my case, Black Avalon), as I called into the 5th quarter radio show, I was greeted with my usual airtime and giving the stage to speak, this was a night when Andy had been drinking, let’s just say I had a few and my annunciation was less then stellar, somehow they mis-heard what I said and asked me if I was eating a “Blazer Blood?!”, I said, “No! And at least I did have the cockandballs! (now please don’t delete this post, that is an actual name of a donut there!) So, needless to say, they didn’t think it was funny, and at that time they didn’t have me on 15 second tape delay, so the whole listening audience of that old AM station got to hear my drunken stupor.
I got kicked off the show for quite a while, all over a donut. I had to take Gentleman lessons, and have my mouth washed out with soap nightly. But now, with a clean grill, I welcome back on this fine new station 95.5 The Game!

And if I never hear another crappy rap song it will be too soon!

Andy

I just read what he done wrote and he cusses like a fatherhumper. He sure seems like a swell guy though. That was entertaining to read. I feel sad for him and other Sonics fans now. Before I was pretty indifferent, because the whole affair dragged on for so long. Hugs Mr. Alexie and all you other heartbroken Sonics fans. I don’t really think much or pray, but if I had thoughts and prayers, they would be with you all.

Dr. Jack Ramsay the man who led us to the championship in 77. How did he become known as Doctor? Does he have a doctorate or doctorates and if so what in?