Dislike Woj, but thought the rest of the article was pretty decent for a change. Strange the bent he seems to have towards Portland. Can’t believe Worldwide Wes flew to Helsinki with Cho.

But how did he come up with it? Quite a little throw away comment.

Paul Allen, Larry Miller and the rest of Blazer Management don’t get any credit for hiring Cho?

IMHO Awoj is a world class idiot that has nothing better to do then make stupid accusations.

WWWes is limiting his involvement with coaches and management these days and honestly I can’t recall anything about Cho’s representation – anyone else? I never once saw “Cho’s agent” mentioned…?

From TrueHoop:

I have written a lot about William Wesley, who now works representing NBA executives at CAA. You’re represented by CAA. How’d you choose them?

I’m represented by CAA. Terry Prince is the guy doing my contract. I’ve known [CAA agent] Leon Rose for a long time, Wes is with CAA. But Terry Prince is my agent at CAA, and it just felt right to go with them.

and then I was shocked to think how he had something to do with the Cho hire, and involvement with Chris Paul. haha. And we thought the guy was “overpayed”.

It worked. I am ashamed that I broke my AWoj rule and clicked on that.

The article is about Chris Paul and William Wesley; there’s nothing more than the one line about the Wes/Cho connection. Too bad; it sounds like an intriguing story — if there’s any truth behind it, of course. Nuthin’ like a front page link on Blazersedge to drive traffic to an AWoj article. Ben, sometimes I wonder if he’s playing you.

but even I have to admit that this hit piece is nothing more than a series of blatantly unsubstantiated allegations, hysterical assertions, and nasty cuts:

They’re using Paul as a commodity to elevate their clout

What’s best for Paul’s family is best for everyone’s family in the NBA.

It needs James to restrict the polluting onto others of his own warped value system.

James plays for the Miami Heat, but somehow he wants control of transactions elsewhere, too.

He wants the building of these so-called super teams to protect his own legacy, to make it look like he isn’t the only superstar searching for the easy way to championships.

Wesley has been running around for months trying to orchestrate a trade for Paul, and the packages he proposes are beyond comical. He doesn’t even know half the names of players on the rosters.

Paul has two years left on his contract and no leverage

In Paul’s earliest days with Team USA, officials preferred Deron Williams(notes) to him because they believed Williams was far more his own man.

If I were Paul, LeBron and Wesley, I would so unfriend Woj.

Is Wes a point guard? What’s his 3 point percentage? Maybe we could trade Rudy for him.

…that had nothing to do with Cho’s hire.

Nate McMillan knowing Cho when he was with the Sonics

…that had nothing to do with Cho’s hire.

All worldwide Wes.

Idiot.

because we going to get cp3, then keep both?

I feel dirty after reading that.

I don’t know about you guys, but whenever I hear people calling this guy “Worldwide Wes” it just makes me cringe.

is making me blog about the Blazers. I actually hate them. Help!

—Dave

A woj. meh.