I am sure everyone has read that Chuck Daly pasted away. Truely a sad day and we as blazer fans have a somewhat unique perspective on this than say the Milwaukee Bucks fans for example. What i mean by that is we are one of only two teams to have lost to a Chuck Daly coached team in the finals. Man i remeber that series against the Pistons(i still freaking hate Bill Laimbeer) they were TOUGH bordering on dirty but it allways seemed that they never really crossed that line. The "bad boys" nickname was less about them being dirty and more about them being  just a tough bunch of S.O.B.s. I hated the Pistons and to this day they are in my top 5 most  hated teams.

Chuck Daly however was allways a class act no matter what was going on, i hated it at the time but looking back on the finals loss to them......we could have lost to a much worse opponent. Reading over the ESPN article about him it is startling to realize all he has done in his basketball career and his life in general. My heart goes out to his family.

RIP Chuck Daly, thanks for the memories.