lol Kenny Vance.

you don’t think Paul Allen had at least some say/input in the #1 pick in the draft? He likely diverted to KP and his staff on the actual decision and analysis, but when you own the franchise and you have a #1 pick, you have to at least state your opinion.

Sure, there is that part in all of us connected to the Blazers that wonders what the team would be like with Durant, with him scoring the way he is this year, and Oden hurt, but at the beginning of the year when Oden was dominating we looked like a pretty darn good team and definitely a contender..they were talking about us as the #1 or #2 seed in the West

I knew it had to be some ones fault.

a lot of stuff gets said at summer league. any time you get all the executives together there’s a lot of jockeying. that kind of statement could easily have been made but that doesn’t give it validity.

i wouldn’t doubt that paul allen is anxious for instant results but i have a hard time believing that kp’s job was in any serious jeopardy (for basketball reasons).

if KP’s job is in jeopardy, that would be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard of.

There would be about twenty-five NBA owners flooding his cell phone with calls were he to be out in Portland.

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that “some NBA exec” said such a thing, it’s well established that quite a few of them (Ainge, Warkentein come to mind) don’t like KP, and I’m sure more than a few are happy to potty-mouth him anonymously to a reporter.

I would be much more surprised were it true.

If anybody “blew it” with Oden/Durant, it’s the medical staff. (Unless, of course, Oden was taken above their objections…)

but mabey penn was the guy who messed up the miles deal and our cap hit there. if so that was a very expensive blow it and cost paul millions. if i cost my boss 10+ million im sure i would be fired. not sure who gets the credit but someone should have. i think kp should go too. he was in the commanders chair during alot of big blow its. besides its not like we are getting any great picks in the near future. he can work his “magic” somewhere else and if we need him again we can hire him back. what we need is someone battle tested with experience putting together and keeping together a championship team.