Sad.

Those guys look soooooo down, I couldn’t bear to keep going.

He might just get on the phone and beg Dunleavy to rescind the trade.

They look like two kids that got lost in the woods or something. I want them both back right now. Hopefully they can resign in the summer. They belong here!

It’s like saying “we break our players’ spirits – see?”

Luckily, both Blake and Outlaw have a chance this summer to improve their situation. Here’s to Trout at Memphis and Blake at Miami.

Best to both of you!

I love that we got Camby. But I hate that we had to give up those two to do it. :(

Why couldn’t we just have Camby for free?

I was starting to feel good about the trade and then i saw this

im hoping we can get both of them back in the off season

this hurts

0/4, 5 assists, 3 boards, 0 TO

travis outlaw did everything he could to smile and couldnt. he belongs in a blazer uniform.

I kept waiting for them to burst into laughter and proclaim, “Just kidding!”

We aren’t winning a championship this year. What is the point of the betrayal when it is just for a rental?

he said he is going to scrap

I feel so bad for those guys. The only thing positive thing I can take from this is that I’m glad they’re in this together.

>—>-D:

… I haven’t felt this bad since Joel went down!

Thus is life though, hopefully they can make the best of it. Especially Outlaw, this could be really good for him. He is going to get a way better chance to show what he can do than he ever would have got in Portland. I hope he can take advantage of it…

that and camby’s interview here.

looks lost. Feel sorry for him. I hope LA doesn’t eat him alive.

on a related note, i didn’t players were allowed to wear t-shirts to press conferences. I thought they had to wear collared shirts

with lit cigarettes in their mouths.
Good on Blake going Nuke LaLoush on ’em with his sports cliches, though.

You make polite conversation, but what you really want to do is get out of there.

I love this trade, but just seeing the still photo of the conference made my heart break.

They look & sound like two kids that just heard that their dog has to be put down. :-(

I hope Outlaw gets his shot. The only thing that makes me feel better after watching that, is knowing it’s only 27 games and that they’re free to seek a better opportunity this summer.

These guys are paid millions of dollars to play a sport they love. They can deal with 1/2 a season playing in a dumpster.. They will both go to better teams with more opportunity next year. Sure it kinda sucks to see them go, but this team wasn’t going to get any better without doing something.

and painful to watch. I understand why KP made the move, but it doesn’t make me feel any less bad for Blake and Trout. And, somehow, knowing they’re not going to be on the floor for Portland makes me feel the Blazers aren’t quite the Blazers any longer. I know the feeling will pass, but still…

I hope, for both their sakes, they can get out of Clipperville and get to teams they really want to be on and that they have great success with those teams. They both fit the “culture” management wanted to create here, but fitting that culture didn’t keep them here when push came to shove.

#25! #2!

Just… ugh.

I feel guilty for wanting to trade them away for so long.

saying, don’t worry, you’ll be back this summer…

he cracked a smile towards the end.

Baron Davis is one thing, even though his situation sucked (Brand saying he was going to LA then backed out), Boom Dizzle kind of seems like a dick (entertaining on and off the court though).

Outlaw and Blake looked like they were wishing they had the Fremont bridge to jump off of

They are multi millionaires living in L.A. for 3 months for a nice vacation.

No, um, no I don’t.

Namely, when you make a needed trade, you’re always going to be trading great people. And that’s always going to feel wrong.

But I do think this trade had to happen, and not entirely because the Blazers were big-deficient due to injury. There were log jams at point guard & small forward, and a coming numbers crunch. You simply have to give Nic Batum, Rudy, Bayless, & Cunningham long minutes. Without significant minutes, guys can’t get a rhythm and develop. How was that going to happen with Blake and a healthy Outlaw on the roster? Something had to give eventually.

Hopefully Blake and Outlaw’s Clipper-Land purgatory will only be for the remainder of this season. They should be able to handle 30-odd games of hell. Hey, fact is, they’re still NBA players, making great money and living the dream. More or less…

Seriously? It’s their profession. Get over it.

back to Portland after my contract expires".

and not know that’s exactly the opposite of how they view the situation.

I almost couldn’t bring myself to hit the play button. I really feel bad for them both, but at the same time, its just a move that would have happened a few months later. I hope things work out well with both of them and who knows, one day one or both of them may be in a Blazer jersey again.

Its true, but very sad to see those two so down. GL! in the offseason Steve and Trav!