I love it when big-shot L.A. writers all but admit they read Blazers Edge.

that Oden’s season is “halved” (he’ll miss about twenty games), when Bynum has missed just about as many games as Greg. But Bynum is the center of the generation. That makes sense.

but he reads just like our own idiot, Canzano.

It looks like he’s actually trying to trade jabs with The Bald One.

All in all, that was actually a very lame article. I don’t think he really had a fresh perspective on anything.

The F*kers won’t do any better this year than they did last year. Our team is catching up to them, and within a year or two will be surpassing them.

I’m tired of people saying that the F*kers/Blazers series isn’t a rivalry. It’s in tune with the reason that Portlanders in general hate SoCal’ers… the incessant attitude that they’re simply better and don’t even notice the simple folk… screw you, Heisler. Why do the F*kers always lose here? Why do the matchups usually get extra chippy?

Face it, this guy is trying to yuck it up… while he can. He knows the gap is closing faster than everyone expected.

Heisler… we’ll give you John! We don’t like him anyway! Screw off!

“In a more traditional part of growing up, the young Trail Blazers think big teams are out to punk them, which was why an unprovoked Oden shoved mild-mannered Ray Allen out of bounds in their Dec. 30 win over the Celtics.”

Clearly mild-mannerd Ray Elbow did not provoke Oden at all…

this article is ripe with Big City Condescension. Not surprising coming from an El Lay lizard. This guy seems to think that teams really aren’t “bullying” the Blazers, or any other team, around. Does this maroon even watch NBA games, other than his cherished L*kers? The best part was when he said Ariza merely slapped Rudy on the wrist. Terrible.

but now I wished I hadn’t. He kind of makes me sick with his F*akerness. I think I’ll take some advil and lie down for a bit until I can muster up the strength to send him an email about proper journalism. Although, what was I really expecting? He is from Socal and I am from Portland so I must hate him. Its in my blood apparently.

That’s funny. I could have sworn Dwight Howard is the center of Bynum’s generation so far.

Nothing else can be said.

Yet Phil and bean seem to think differently. Yeah, they come here and lose on purpose because they don’t care when they play us. Right.

People are noticing that the Blazers have a cult like internet following and bashing or praising the Blazers will get an author way more hits than it would if he or she wrote about their own team. It’s only going to get worse because it’s easier to bash that praise.

Beyond that, he wrote a really petty article. It’s like telling someone you don’t like their shoes and they tell you your fat, poorly dressed, and unloved. The best thing to to with LA Trolls is ignore them.

1) while i do see the stereotype of Los Angelenos as two dimensional, plastic, fake, and superficial as obvious, like most places on earth there is a deep complexity in groups and their histories. Like most places Los Angeles has a glut of working class people who work hard day in and day out. The are also is extremely multicultural, with over 50 percent of the city being Mexican and Mexican-American. Many of whom are lakers fans that never make it to the staples center or sit to high up to be seen. To me the idea that lakers fans are all one type and are “faker” fans, while no doubt true of many, is probably an easy way to gloss over the complexity that most places have. People watch the lakers all over the southland, even in the deeply working class inland empire, valley’s and not simply the affluent west side.

2) I think that mostly you are right that lakers fans and writers are trying to trivialize the rivalry with portland. Its clear from the quotes from players and coaches that the lakers themselves see the blazers as a serious threat.. that isn’t “arriving” but is already here. I can tell you that any fan that has a little bit of analyst in them realizes the blazer laker thing is for realz and respect what the blazers have done. I think allot of the “blazers are just little 8 year olds trying to play with the 8th graders” stuff is cause allot of lakers fans were honestly unaware of the inability of lakers to win up in portland. I think what most remember is from the shaq/kobe era in which the lakers took playoff victories and kind of block out everything in between. True or not, that is where it is coming from.

3) the thing with bynum and oden is a legit point. Bynum has as much injury questions as oden does so its a joke that laker fans bash on him and call him a bust. But to explain i think there is this feeling that bynum’s injuries were fluke accidents where as oden’s have something to do with some kind of internal structural flaw. There is evidence now that bynum might be the same, if true, so that is a joke to. but thats where it comes from.

4) the big city small city stuff is definetly in this article. and thats not good… one place is not any worse then any other place. people live where they live… leave it at that. just like “little town” covers up allot of complexity of what portland is, the type of people who live there, and the type of fans the blazers have so is reducing L.A. to hollywood and the images of superficiality it omits covers up important complexity.

very…..very….bad. If we are such a non factor, why does he have to make laker fans feel better by talking shit about our team?

I remember last year when we beat them for the second time in Portland and K*be said in his after the game interview, “at least we didn’t get beat by a playoff team.” Then this year the only thing we heard after the game was L*kers players saying “We need to prepare for all teams like we prepare for the Celtics or the Cavs.” We all know they were prepared for that game. They just act like babies when they don’t win.

Then look at a team that has a lot of class like the San Antonio Spurs. When they came to Portland and got blown out they had nothing but praise for how well the Blazers played and you saw Tim after the game shaking people hands and being nice. The players admitted they didn’t play hard enough to win. They didn’t leave the locker room early and go sit in the back of the player’s bus and mope.

The Lakers team might not say there is a rivalry but K*be knows and they were prepared for that game. They just need to take their beating and go home.

When we get blown out by teams on the road we don’t give offhanded comments, we just move on.

There are a lot of reasons why I dislike the Lakers organization and if the people of LA don’t feel there is a rivalry we’ll just keep beating them until they do.

no one respects him here either. you shouldnt