Stay Gold.

Just not good enough for our system but among the best guys you’ll ever meet.

You’re a great guy and I hope you can get your career back on track wherever you end up.

Best of luck to him wherever he ends up playing. Great personality, solid player, he’ll get his minutes somewhere. He wasn’t really right for our system, which is fine. Not everyone is.

Thank you, Channing. Try not to burn us too badly wherever you end up.

You will be missed, more because of stories of people running into at the pancake house or elsewhere in Portland than your game…regardless you are definitely a portlander…

You never did get back to me on your blog about playing xbox online though, i’d miss you more if you didn’t diss me like that. LOL

Channing:
Many players have talent in the NBA. but a much shorter list have your class. That will last long past your days as a player. You’ll always be made to feel welcome here – even when you arrive with a visiting team. Just wait – you’ll feel very strange to get that applause in an opposing venue.

Great guy. Wish you fit with our team better.

Just wasn’t the right fit now.

Hope you have a break out year where ever you end up…just not on the nights you play the Blazers. You had some great stretches that showed if given the chance you could contribute. Good luck!

Quality, quality guy. Wish things would have worked out better for you here. Best of luck wherever you land!

Good guy. Solid talent. He will land on his feet somewhere.

Wish he would have developed some low post moves to go along with his jumper, but that is his next team’s problem now.

One of the nicest guys we have had on the team. Best of luck Frye

Hopefully he can now spread the wealth to other places, I’m sure many teams could use his great personality and willingness to help- if the sustainability commercials are true to their word. I hope to see the Frye legacy live on in that aspect.

great fun guy to have

You will have lots of friends wherever you go.

Great player, wonderful guy, wrong team. Definitely the most “Portland” guy we’ve ever had.

I have the utmost confidence that he’ll get great PT and respect anywhere he goes.

You’ll be missed, Big Fella!

truly one of the great personalities in the NBA and we will all miss you

Great guy, good player, hope he finds a better fit for his gamesomewhere on the eastern conference :)

I agree he should be a broadcaster after basketball. I’d trade him for Luftman now.

Thank you and good luck.

Good luck with your career buddy, I’m sure there’s a team that could use a big like you in their system. Maybe Sactown? pick and pop with sergio? :-)

one of the great people ever to play for this team

He helped dismissed the “bad era” by being a good person, a good teammate and came over in the deal for Zach. I don’t know how much more valuable a bit player could have been but Channing was that valuable and more. Here’s to nothing but success in your future endeavors and hoping that when all is said and done you make Portland your home.

ah, channing.

(not that I expect they would); but no longer have his Bird rights. They could only use cap room, an exception, or the minimum salary.

At least I think that’s the case.

After he finishes his NBA career, that is. Failing that, I hope The Buffet of Goodness has a long career in Portland as a broadcaster. That would really be outstanding.

What an exceptional human being—in or out of basketball shoes. You knew it the day he arrived in Portland.

Expect you to do well on and off the court. Probably better for you to get where you are fully utilized. San Antonio could be nice…. But don’t forget, you have plenty of fans who appreciate you in Portland.

Last year I once dreamed about Channing going to Memphis. But there are some other options out there. When he posts up 10 and 5 every night and occasionally goes for over 20 or a double double people will say “if only we would have kept Channing, he is good and was so funny. Pendi sucks!” although that again will be only half the truth.

Not giving Channing the QO doesn’t prevent us from bringing him back as a UFA, but makes it unlikely due to our playing time situation and another team probably offering him what he wants.

But not the last one. KP also got the rights to the draft pick that became Omer Asik, and converted that into three future draft picks. 2009 second round pick (from Nuggets) (#55-Patrick Mills), 2009 second round pick (from Bulls) (#38-Jon Brockman, traded with Sergio and cash to the Kings), 2010 second round pick (from Bulls, this our our own pick will go to Dallas). Godspeed Patty Mills, you better pan out for us ;-)

You might include Rudy since we got a trade exception from the deal that helped us to take James Jones off the hands of the Suns, but Rudy’s pick was just acquired for cash. The Suns probably would have done the deal without the parallel Jones deal. Maybe a dotted connection.

I will try to update my transaction flowchart once the free agency period is under way and I’m back at my regular PC. Don’t have all info and the software on the road. Probably second or third weekend in July.

Gonna miss him. He really engulfed himself in out unique Portland culture. I’m sure he’ll have a place here when in its all said and done.

…U stay classy Mr. Frye!!!

You deserve the love Channing & I hope you end up in the right place for your future!

A starter, and a 10/10 guy undoubtedly, just wrong place.
Maybe the Nets might fit.

Channing -You’re a true Portlander and you will be missed. Come back and stay after your long wonderful career of short visits and plentiful cheers when you come back. I’ll probably still continue reading the blog. Portland is your home, we won’t forget that. You’re fantastic, best of luck! -Jazz.

I was impressed and inspired by the way you handled the good times and the challenging ones as a Portland Trail Blazers. I’ll miss you.

My advice is to shoot more 3s and less 2 pointers with a foot on the line.

if you keep blogging, i’ll keep reading.

I loved seeing you play, especially last year whey you got some real PT and showed what you had.

I hope you land on your feet and in a situation where you get a big role.

Best of luck wherever you end up

Anybody know how long the Blazers would have to wait after waiving him to sign him as a free agent? Not that I think there is any reason they would do that, but it occurred to me if that would be a loophole to the hold “salary cap hold” on qualifying offers thing. Waive them and then compete for their services later? But how long?

Not that this would ever happen for Frye. Unless he was making Shav money and was into accepting that role.

You clearly will be missed Frye. Not nearly as much on the court as everywhere else around here.

decent player..

For years we were the laughingstock of the league. We desperately needed high character guys. The fans BEGGED for it. We told management – just give us guys we want to root for!

And now we’re throwing away Channing Frye. A guy who lives in the city instead of the burbs. A guy who’s adopted Portland as his favorite place – like us! A guy I can point to and tell my son that he’s a great person and a good role model.

But he’s not worth one of our 15 roster spots?! Was Diagu or Randolph just so great at bench warming that we don’t have room for a guy of this caliper character?

Bad move. Don’t even tell me about “bad basketball fit.” He’s the exact opposite of locker room poison. Bad move.

But hey – maybe we can make a deal for another registered sex offender.

He was by far my favorite Blazer personality and I have said since he’s been on the team that if I could hang out with one Blazer, it would be him. I’m glad that he will be calling Portland home for a long time, can’t wait to run into him on the street.

I’ll be rooting for you wherever you end up. Hopefully you’ll be in Portland when you aren’t playing ball.

Somehow I figured your time here would be short since Nate always referred to you as “Frye” and never by first name, unlike almost all the other players.

You are and will remain one of my favorite NBA players, regardless of where you end up. I hope that you will return to the Blazers’ organization in some capacity when you finally hang up the high-tops.

That’s the common theme in this thread and in everything I’ve heard and read about our P-Town adopted son.

And in addition to his PR persona on TV, on radio and in print, it’s true from my first-hand perspective. Here’s my personal experience:

Friday afternoon in an East-side sushi restaurant: Channing is there with his fiance and another couple. My 8 year-old son taps him on the shoulder on our way out and says, “hey Channing, Nice to meet you. Thanks for a great season.”

His response, “thanks, kid. What’s you’re name? I promise next year’s gonna be even better.”

He may have been right. I’m hoping he was. Too bad he won’t be a part of it.

He’s a quality guy and as noted above a marked part of the Blazers’ shift to a higher ground.

Thank you, Channing. I wish you success in everything you do (as long as it’s not against the Blazers – and even then, I’ll stand up and cheer your name when it’s announced…).

out.

Hope he can show his strengths somewhere

I hope the team you go to is a better fit for ya, you deserve it. Class act.

KGW ran this story under the teaser “Blazers Clean House”

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Please always keep a home here in Portland. We love your personality and the love you have shown our town. I hope you get more playing time elsewhere. And of course, as stated, you can always hang your jersey and take over Mike Rice’s spot in broadcasting. The Mike B, Channing and Rebecca show. Sounds good to me!

Oh, and it was super fun running into you and Rudy and Sergio that one time at the location that should not be named. You are a swell guy.

and come back to us someday, as a player or Rice’s replacement.

I enjoyed the presence of Channing Frye in Portland.

I saw him wasted at the Blue Moon and at Dixie Tavern. Dixie he had some young blonde trollip hanging off his arms.

My friend tried to convince him he should have gone to Stanford instead of Arizona.

Loves to party and to rebound!

Please come back after you have made a huge ton of money. – Elgin

and you’ll always belong. Thanks.

I would absolutely love to have this guy join the Nuggets. He provides some great shooting touch that Denver sorely lacks from their big men.

I wanted Frye back when he was with the Knicks and never thought he’d leave Portland, but obviously things up there didn’t work out.

the Nuggets were meeting with Portland restricted free agent Channing Frye as the clock struck midnight ET. Nobody does more with less than the Nuggets, who would benefit from Frye’s pick-and-pop ability without breaking the bank.

Full read here on CBS Sports.

I hope he finds success elsewhere and look forward to him coming back someday to do color work on TV or radio.