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December 11, 2003
Sad News From Portland
In a column written for the December 22, 2003 edition of ESPN The Magazine, long-time Sports Guy and soon-to-be Jimmy Kimmel Live refugee Bill Simmons mourns the impending end of the Jailblazers era in Portland. Already gone is team captain Bonzi Wells, and rumors are that Rasheed Wallace won't be far behind. (And if you think that linking their names to their rap sheets on CrackSmoker.com rather than their NBA.com profiles was deliberate, you're correct!)
Offering up sad commentaries on the Blazers is definitely among the easy picking of writing about sports in this day and age, but I'll offer one more observation. Consider how much more this team struggled after losing the "stability" and "veteran leadership" provided by Scottie Pippen, the man widely known as the whiniest second banana in the history of fruit-based sports metaphors.
Posted by Dan at December 11, 2003 07:30 AM
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The professor makes the syllabus, not you.
Posted by: Jessica Saunders at February 27, 2004 05:25 AM
That was deep, I think.
Posted by: Dan at February 27, 2004 07:40 AM
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