Anyone know what's up with Wheeler?

[mobes23]

He was interviewed on Seattle sports radio this morning and said he'd miss the next road trip because he has a health concern. In a slightly kidding, but maybe slightly serious way, he said he hoped the interview wouldn't be his last. He didn't seem to give any details, but I caught the interview half way through.

 

[HailBlazers]

Wow really?

Prayers to ya Wheels

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Wow, that's concerning. Whatever is going on Wheels, Blazer nation is behind you!

 

[jlprk]

The best thing to happen to Blazer Nation since glaciers carved out the Columbia Basin.

 

[BBert]

Possible HIPPA violation for any Blazers employee to spill the beans on Wheelers health issue. Being the Soccer Mom's we are though, we'd all like to know what's up. Maybe he'll share. Either way, I think I can speak for most of us and say we wish you well, Wheels!

 

[BlazerWookee]

Thoughts and prayers, Wheels!

So who will be calling the game on the radio?

 

[Eastoff]

Thoughts and prayers, Wheels!

So who will be calling the game on the radio?

Duh... Tone
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[julius]

If Brian wanted us to know, Brian would let us know. Until then, we can speculate that he's obviously being deported to Canada.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

This will be the first game he's missed in 15 years!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Sources say that he and the HCP are still trying to get out of the chair they were going for at the annual Blazers musical chairs game.

 

[mobes23]

Interesting that it came up on Seattle radio and not local news; although, I know that Wheeler is buddies with Mitch in the morning, the Seattle talk radio guy. Pretty sure that Seattle show is actually simulcast in PDX on 620 fox sports radio.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Didn't they have Quick do radio when 'Tone was sick last year?

It would be awesome if Shonz filled in for Wheels. He may not be on top of his game but it would be so much fun.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Didn't they have Quick do radio when 'Tone was sick last year?

It would be awesome if Shonz filled in for Wheels. He may not be on top of his game but it would be so much fun.

Shonz should be the obvious choice.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Shonz should be the obvious choice.

Is he on the trip with the team?

 

[Eastoff]

Didn't they have Quick do radio when 'Tone was sick last year?

It would be awesome if Shonz filled in for Wheels. He may not be on top of his game but it would be so much fun.

Yeah, you have connections, serious connections now.

 

[Strenuus]

That's interesting to hear, considering when he was doing the post game interview with Stotts they were talking about how the team flight left at 8:45 and they'd "see them there". Sounded like nothing was out of the ordinary.

Hope all is well, Wheels!

 

[Boise Blazer]

PORTLAND, Ore. (November 14, 2013) – For the first time in his 16-year career with the team, Portland Trail Blazers radio play-by-play voice Brian Wheeler will not be at the microphone when the team plays. Illness will prevent Wheeler from traveling with the team as it departs on a four-game swing against NBA Eastern Conference teams beginning Friday night in Boston. Prior to his illness, Wheeler had never missed a broadcast since being hired by the Trail Blazers in 1998.

In Wheeler’s absence, the Trail Blazers will temporarily simulcast audio from its television broadcast tandem of Mike Barrett and Mike Rice, with radio analyst Antonio Harvey added as a third on-air voice.

http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/ill...brian-wheeler-upcoming-eastern-conference-roa

 

[Eastoff]

"In Wheeler’s absence, the Trail Blazers will temporarily simulcast audio from its television broadcast tandem of Mike Barrett and Mike Rice, with radio analyst Antonio Harvey added as a third on-air voice."

Tone and the Wild one on a live broadcast should be entertaining! They do a good job on Courtside.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/ill...brian-wheeler-upcoming-eastern-conference-roa

Woof. That'll be pretty interesting... and by interesting I mean "barely better than Eddie Doucette".

 

[THE HCP]

So I tried to talk my boss in to letting me call the game with 'Tone and to my surprise, he wasn't really feel in' it. #TheirLoss

 

[Natebishop3]

So I tried to talk my boss in to letting me call the game with 'Tone and to my surprise, he wasn't really feel in' it. #TheirLoss

Someone would shoot you after you said fams for the tenth time.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

So I tried to talk my boss in to letting me call the game with 'Tone and to my surprise, he wasn't really feel in' it. #TheirLoss

You do have a face for radio.

 

[mobes23]

You do have a face for radio.

And yet his kids are cute. Interesting.

 

[GrandpaBlaze]

And yet his kids are cute. Interesting.

You mean his wife's kids?

Gramps...

 

[Denny Crane]

So I tried to talk my boss in to letting me call the game with 'Tone and to my surprise, he wasn't really feel in' it. #TheirLoss

He was thinking you have a face for radio.

EDIT: Sly beat me to it. It must be true!

 

[chris_in_pdx]

Shonz should be the obvious choice.

He should be, but he's really getting up there in years. I would perhaps expect him to call home games with Rice, since they used to work together, and put Tone on the TV broadcasts with Barrett.

 

[Natebishop3]

Woof. That'll be pretty interesting... and by interesting I mean "barely better than Eddie Doucette".

Methinks you forgot about Pete Pranica.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

Methinks you forgot about Pete Pranica.

Pranica didn't do radio, did he? If he did, I TOTALLY blacked out on that.

 

[Natebishop3]

Pranica didn't do radio, did he? If he did, I TOTALLY blacked out on that.

I thought Eddie Doucette and Pranica both did television....

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I thought Eddie Doucette and Pranica both did television....

Eddie did radio before moving to TV... it was nutty because of Eddies overuse of metaphor and similies ("the old Ross Perot, in and out and back in again."). My dad once said, "I wasn't listening to a basketball game because there were circus bears and politicians and cowboys and aliens and all sorts of crap on the court instead!"