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http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/55345/brandon-roy-back-at-scene-of-the-shine


Even though he won’t be playing, the thought of returning to his old home at the Rose Garden in Portland is stirring the emotions in Brandon Roy.

Knee injuries have put his attempted comeback with the Minnesota Timberwolves on ice after just five games this season, just as his bad knees ended his time with the Portland Trail Blazers after five years. But at least he is traveling with the Timberwolves on this trip, something he didn’t do when the team visited Portland for the first time on Nov. 23.

“I’m excited to go back,” Roy said after the Timberwolves lost to the Lakers in Los Angeles Thursday night. “I don’t quite know how I’ll feel. I’m excited to go back and be in that building again. It was special. I had a lot of special moments there.”

None was more special than Game 4 of the 2011 first-round playoff series against the Dallas Mavericks, when Roy scored 18 points in the fourth quarter to lead the Trail Blazers all the way back from a 23-point deficit for the win ... his last one in a Portland uniform.

That was my favorite performance by one of my favorite players, and this was the first time I had a chance to talk to him since I was glued to the television that day.
It didn’t take much to get Roy’s memories flowing and his eyes in that glassy “I reminisce, I reminisce” mode.

Prior to that fourth quarter, Roy’s biggest impact on the series came when he expressed his disappointment about playing only eight minutes in Game 2. The Mavericks won two of the first three games, sliding the Trail Blazers toward the offseason, prompting Roy to finally relax and let go.

“I just went into that game like, ‘Who cares?’” Roy said. “I was loose. I just played.”

Roy checked in for the final time with 4:46 remaining in the third quarter and a short time later Peja Stojakovic made two 3-pointers in a minute and a half to put the Mavs ahead 67-44.

“A fan was like, ‘Roy, you ain’t doing nothing,’” Roy said. “I’m like ‘Man, I just got in the game, we’re down 23 points and it’s my fault? Whatever.’”

At the end of the quarter, Roy took a 3-pointer that rolled around the rim and bounced in with a second remaining, setting the stage for the epic comeback.

“Coming into the fourth quarter, I’m like, ‘I’m going to be aggressive,’” Roy said. “Shots just started falling. Then I got even more aggressive, started making plays. I got loose.”

Roy made catch-and-shoot jumpers, pullup shots, driving layups. He was unstoppable. The crowd roared, thrilled by the scoring exhibition, enticed by the possibility their Blazers could actually pull this off.

“I got chills myself,” Roy said. “Going into the timeout, I kind of got goosebumps.

“The closer we got, I just said, ‘Man, there’s no way we’re going to lose this game.’”

Roy made a short jumper to put the Trail Blazers ahead, 84-82, with 39 seconds remaining, then watched as a Jason Terry 3-pointer missed at the buzzer.

It turned out to be Roy’s last great moment of the many he compacted into his five seasons there, beginning with his Rookie of the Year campaign in 2006-07. The Mavericks won the next two games to finish off the series and launch their improbable championship run. The damaged knees that had reduced Roy to a bench player forced him to retire after the lockout ended in 2011. The Trail Blazers used the amnesty provision to take the remaining $64 million on his contract off their books, and he sat out the season.

He dropped by the Rose Garden once, on March 20, 2012, to watch former Blazers teammate and fellow Seattleite Jamal Crawford play on his birthday, but he mostly stayed away from the NBA. And while he was out, Roy watched replays of the fourth quarter of Game 4 on his iPad ... well, let’s just say more than once.

“It wasn’t the same, because nothing will ever be like that moment,” Roy said. “ I mean, fans were cheering, my teammates ... and I really thought I could make every shot.

“Then you hear how the announcers are calling it. That made it a little bit better. When you’re going through it, you don’t quite know what they’re saying about it.”

Looking back, he acknowledges some points even came on bad shots, ones he can’t believe he attempted.

“When you’re in that zone, you take those kind of shots,” Roy said.

Roy won’t be in the game, let alone in that zone, on Saturday. At least he will be in the building. He’s hopeful that he can play again this season, but with his future not guaranteed, 27 games remaining on the schedule and the injury-riddled Timberwolves about to miss the playoffs for the ninth consecutive season, this could be Roy’s last time in Portland as a player, even an inactive one.

“This,” he said, “will be a little different.”
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Um... Brandon retired December 10th, and Crawford signed on December 11th. They were never "teammates."
 
Roy made catch-and-shoot jumpers, pullup shots, driving layups. He was unstoppable. The crowd roared, thrilled by the scoring exhibition, enticed by the possibility their Blazers could actually pull this off.
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One of the most exciting moments of my life as a sports fan. Rocky theme is cued and out of nowhere Brandon Roy returns from surgery. Was an epic moment to be at the RG.
 
HailBlazers said:
One of the most exciting moments of my life as a sports fan. Rocky theme is cued and out of nowhere Brandon Roy returns from surgery. Was an epic moment to be at the RG.
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It was magical. I nearly didn't go to that game, but managed to buy tickets a few hours before the game started. I also almost didn't see the comeback, because I was so disheartened by the lead Dallas had. Luckily, I decided to stay one more play... now I never leave a game early!
 
BlazerCaravan said:
It was magical. I nearly didn't go to that game, but managed to buy tickets a few hours before the game started. I also almost didn't see the comeback, because I was so disheartened by the lead Dallas had. Luckily, I decided to stay one more play... now I never leave a game early!
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I'll never forget the game, we also got tickets at the last second. I was skeptical about it because the last playoff game I was able to go to was game 1 vs rockets the previous year when Blazers were blown out. During the Mavs game in the 3rd I told my dad that I was bad luck (at the time Blazers were down by like 23) and that he wasted his money. Then shit got crazy and absolutely amazing. I took a lot of footage during and after the game when people were chanting outside. I saw like 4 dudes tearing up who sat by me while the comeback was happening.

Easily the best game I ever went to
 
I dont have pinwheel's equipment , but this was something I threw together for Brandon in the TV truck the next day.

[video=youtube;LarcNzWKmO8]
 
And this was my open for Game 5's telecast
Man I miss B-Roy

[video=youtube;TGUFI5AI_FM]
 
HCP said:
I dont have pinwheel's equipment , but this was something I threw together for Brandon in the TV truck the next day.

[video=youtube;LarcNzWKmO8]
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For me at at least, the first half of this is in stereo sound but the second half is in mono.
 
KeepOnRollin said:
For me at at least, the first half of this is in stereo sound but the second half is in mono.
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Wouldn't doubt it....threw it together in about 15 minutes for Brandon. No time for quality control FAMS!
 
The post production guys are the experts at these types of pieces not me.
 
HCP said:
And this was my open for Game 5's telecast
Man I miss B-Roy

[video=youtube;TGUFI5AI_FM]
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KeepOnRollin said:
For me at at least, the first half of this is in stereo sound but the second half is in mono.
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I'm drooling at all those angles that I've never seen. Really like the game 5 telecast vid especially

I've been thinking about doing one last roy vid when he officially retires for the last time
 
Do ya think he'll get a standing ovation when they show him on the big screen at the RG tomorrow?
 
BoBoBREWSKI said:
Do ya think he'll get a standing ovation when they show him on the big screen at the RG tomorrow?
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Without a doubt! Wish I could be there to join in, bought tickets to the last Wolves game but atlas he was a no show.
 
HailBlazers said:
One of the most exciting moments of my life as a sports fan. Rocky theme is cued and out of nowhere Brandon Roy returns from surgery. Was an epic moment to be at the RG.
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The game in which Roy came back from surgery was Game 4 vs Phoenix. This article is about Game 4 vs Dallas, a game I sat courtside at. Amazing. I cried as they played the Hey song after we had taken the lead.
 
I think pinewheelempire needs to post his Roy 4th quarter comeback against Dallas here. That vid always puts a tear in my eye
 
I'll be at the game. 100 level. Should I make a sign and what should it say?
 
Or

B-Roy, have you learned how to play defense with all your free time?

:devil:
 
HailBlazers said:
One of the most exciting moments of my life as a sports fan. Rocky theme is cued and out of nowhere Brandon Roy returns from surgery. Was an epic moment to be at the RG.
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My favorite Blazer game I have gone to. The comeback, the crowd, Roy being magical . . . as a sports fan, I live to experience those moments.
 
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