Once a Winner, Always a Winner

by Ben Golliver on Jul 8, 2008 9:21 PM PDT

Too bad they don't hand out medals and plaques for NBA champions. I guess the groovy looking Everyman Assistant Coach (Back Left) will have to settle for a ring.

Need a hint who it is? Read the jerseys ("Jayhawks").

Dave's brilliant suggestion: throw up your own caption (but keep it nice)!

-- Ben (benjamin.golliver@gmail.com)

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Well Gee

It’s not like I can roll my mouse pointer over the picture and it tells me that the file is called kevinpritchard_medium or anything like that. :)

Can I buy you a fish sandwich?

by silkybrown on Jul 8, 2008 9:40 PM PDT reply actions

shh

"Honor Terry Porter." Email me with your TP stories and memories.

by Ben Golliver on Jul 8, 2008 9:40 PM PDT up reply actions

nobody will notice... just keep quiet

"Honor Terry Porter." Email me with your TP stories and memories.

by Ben Golliver on Jul 8, 2008 9:41 PM PDT up reply actions

I mean specifically NOBODY bags on the kids for any reason in their captions. It’s not cool to say things about kids growing up, even in a teasing way. They all look like super-studs anyway, so it shouldn’t be an issue.

—Dave

by Dave on Jul 8, 2008 9:51 PM PDT reply actions

Oh, and forgot to mention the most important part

How many years did we say we wanted our Blazer players and staff to be more a part of the community? Things like this show that, however quietly, this generation of Blazers is.

—Dave

by Dave on Jul 8, 2008 10:04 PM PDT up reply actions

Pritch's first gm challange...assemble a .....

Pete Carril U13 1996 tribute squad

....backdoor city…......all day, all night.

"Rudy Fernández ha confirmado hoy que la próxima temporada jugará en el Portland Trail Blazers"

by $chonzarelli on Jul 8, 2008 10:20 PM PDT reply actions

This is too hard...

with the “Keep it Nice” clause.

I’ve been staring at this picture for ten minutes trying to figure out some bonkhead remark… and still nothing.

Playing basketball... is like playing poker while running on a treadmill at full speed with people swinging a Louisville Slugger at you. -Dave on 95.5 The Game

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Jul 8, 2008 10:30 PM PDT reply actions

seriously though...

is that 4’10” kid on the front right palming the basketball?

Man, he must have HUGE hands… did he make it to the NBA, too?

Playing basketball... is like playing poker while running on a treadmill at full speed with people swinging a Louisville Slugger at you. -Dave on 95.5 The Game

by you'vegottomakeyourfreethrows on Jul 8, 2008 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

"Ladies and gentlemen

introducing the REST of the Blazers’ 2008 Summer League Roster.”

There, I broke the ice.

And the “nice” part only applies to not dissing young kids about their appearance.

—Dave

by Dave on Jul 8, 2008 10:50 PM PDT up reply actions

That tall kid in the green shirt is ugly

"why? Disagree. Why? Disagree Why? Disagree Exactly. woh what just happened, im so confused Precisely ...in his own trap." by ptwnblzr amlmart1 jscot rockingharder

by Sabonis4Ever on Jul 10, 2008 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Well

First chapter of “the book” in KP’s “Process.” We’ll be stashing two of these guys overseas in 20012

Blazer's fan since '84, Currently exiled in Tennessee and North Carolina

by HurraKane212 on Jul 8, 2008 10:32 PM PDT reply actions

2012...

got a little zero happy

Blazer's fan since '84, Currently exiled in Tennessee and North Carolina

by HurraKane212 on Jul 8, 2008 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Good, cuz if you meant 20012

that would mean the Blazers cryogenic freezer is located overseas.

by shralpster on Jul 8, 2008 10:45 PM PDT up reply actions

I understand we signed Roy through 20082.

Storyteller’s going to need a wider site format.

—Dave

by Dave on Jul 8, 2008 10:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Wait, does that mean I have to go through 18074 individual offseasons between now and then, each summer waiting for my Blazers to come back to action in the fall?

POOF!
~Disappears to go get TV and Tivo in order to watch recorded games in the offseason~

How do I set my laser printer to stun?

by prezofdeath on Jul 8, 2008 10:54 PM PDT up reply actions

KP looks like Adam Carolla in that picture

...minus the unibrow, that is.

by shralpster on Jul 8, 2008 10:43 PM PDT reply actions

"At least

I traded Raef’s expiring contract for something with ‘Jayhawks’ on it.”

I will never waste a beer. There are too many sober kids in India. -Rod Benson

by supremepuntiff on Jul 8, 2008 10:51 PM PDT reply actions

"No little Joshy,

Even if you go to Duke, I’ll still draft you if you’re available in the second round.”

How do I set my laser printer to stun?

by prezofdeath on Jul 8, 2008 10:57 PM PDT reply actions

LOL

“Those UK guys are going to be really mad when they open their duffles and find the ‘Mike’s Car Wash’ uniforms.”

—Dave

by Dave on Jul 8, 2008 10:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Man, I can't believe we fit in these UK jerseys!

I feel like the Monstars, or somethin’

How do I set my laser printer to stun?

by prezofdeath on Jul 8, 2008 11:06 PM PDT up reply actions

Pritchard Makes Major Moves

AP – Jayhawks General Manager Kevin Pritchard may not be done tinkering with the team, according to sources within the organization.
The AYBA wunderkind made a field day record four trades during and after third period Tuesday, including snatching Jimmy Piersol and Chip Franklin from Thomason Elementary in a sign-and-trade for Nick Carlsen, who’s since been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and headlice.
He then sent Franklin to Reynolds Prep for Kirin McTarnahan, a previously unknown exchange student from Scotland.
“I think Jayhawks fans are really going to like Kirin. He’s a hard-nosed kid for a fourth grader, and he has a fake ID from back home in Scotland, so he can buy the girls wine coolers, ” Pritchard gushed. “And this kid is a great student, too. You should have seen the lunch monitor’s face when he opened up his lunch sack and pulled out haggis and a pint of scotch. Still pulled all check-pluses, too”
Pritchard also traded Eddie Taylor to a school in Silverton, for Nelson and Wilson Filson, second grade twins whose mom might leave her cheating, worthless husband and move back to Portland to live with her sons’ grandma and grandpa. It was a prophetic move for the Jayhawks, as friends say Taylor’s dad is reportedly looking to get a second job working nightshift at the Silverton Thriftway.
AYBA veterans marvel at the Jayhawks’ progress. In two hard years, Pritchard has turned a team of students who commonly earned Ns (needs improvement) on their mid-term progress reports into a group of elementary school phenoms with several years of potential growth. Pritchard is stoked on the possibilities.
“I think it’s not too early to begin putting high expectations on these kids,” he says. “I mean, I guarantee, when the Filson boys get their pubes, the sky’s the limit.”

by FlyingOutlaw on Jul 8, 2008 11:13 PM PDT reply actions 8 recs

LOL

check pluses…. truly incredible work.. i salute your powerful green post.

"Honor Terry Porter." Email me with your TP stories and memories.

by Ben Golliver on Jul 9, 2008 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Well...

with Laurence Fishburne as head coach, how can you not win. Maybe thats where Pritch got his special GM powers, he took the red pill and he’s handing out blue pills to the rest of the league.

"OK, it's going to rain tomorrow. And there is going to be a Greenpeace meeting and hippies are going to be protesting" ~ The Buffet of Goodness on Portland

by Blazer on Jul 9, 2008 12:47 AM PDT reply actions

KP

He’s so intuned with his surroundings he matched his wardrobe with the back wall

by clydeshairline on Jul 9, 2008 12:54 AM PDT reply actions

Assistant?

Does anyone else find it funny he isn’t even the head coach? Who made that personnel decision?

by Croatian_Sensation on Jul 9, 2008 1:40 AM PDT reply actions

Trade master?

He may not be head coach, but this is the season he started the pritchslapping. Little do you know he orchestrated a trade with the Bluedevils. They received Josh Childress ( Holding plaque ) for 1000 Chuck E Cheese tickets. Ha Ha

by exSTUNTER on Jul 9, 2008 3:19 AM PDT reply actions

After Michael Jackson left the coaching staff,

the Jayhawks were able to enlist more talent to their youthful core, as KP has sufficiently changed the culture in Kansas.

by MGNNoah on Jul 9, 2008 6:05 AM PDT reply actions

"KP has always known

the value of Raef LaFrentz’s Expiring Contract.”

Who’s going to hold RLEC in the Blazers’ 2008-2009 team photo?

by RoyDrexler on Jul 9, 2008 8:06 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs

Man I wish that wasn't KP

I wanted to make a joke like, “Have you had trouble finding your ideal partner because you’re not a Catholic Priest? Give youth basketball coaching a try.” Although, I think priest jokes might have jumped the shark.

Oh, I got one.

Kevin Pritchard of the Portland Trail Blazers, seen here with a group of boys wearing medals for beating Sergio Rodriguez in a free throw shooting competition.

Is it too soon to make jokes about Sergio’s free throws?

"Man I want to rec it again." - pualo talking about jscot's long comment

by tominhawaii on Jul 9, 2008 8:16 AM PDT reply actions

Here's some bad Sergio FT jokes...

Sergio’s FTs are flatter than…
1) a womens gymnastic team
2) the pulse line of Dick Chaney going into cardiac arrest
3) a Goodyear tire

(crickets…tumbleweeds passing by) Try the veal folks, I’ll be here all week.

by RoyDrexler on Jul 9, 2008 8:38 AM PDT up reply actions 1 recs

Picture Quote

“Kevin Pritchard, General Manager of the NBA’s latest expansion team the Fort Leavenworth Jayhawks, stands proudly next to the youngest NBA team he has ever assembled.”

"It's amazing what a group of guys can accomplish when no one cares who gets credit."
President Harry S. Truman

by Dr. Deal on Jul 9, 2008 9:57 AM PDT reply actions