Candid Damon

[ABM]

Anyone catch that interview with Damon on the BFT?

A few things he said stood out to me:

(Paraphrasing)

1) Blazers management definitely broke-up that 2000 team about two to three years too early. May have had to tweak a couple of 'small" pieces, but they still had "it". Called that 99/00 team one the funnest he'd ever been on. Shared a cool story about Scottie lighting up a cigar inside the team bus following a win in Minny.

2) Calls the Blazers far and above the best run operation in the league....from the secretaries, to security, to overall management, to the team buffet. (can you say munchies? )

3) Has spoken to Z-Bo a couple of times during the past few days. Thinks Zach's head is right and "hopes" nothing worse will come from the recent troubles with the law. However, followed that with a "we'll have to see how it all plays out".

4) Thinks the Portland media is far too harsh for "the size of town it is." (Go figure. )

5) Wants to be a head coach someday....whether in the NBA or for a "top 25" college team.

 

[ehizzy3]

it was a great interview.

 

[BGrantFan]

I loved Damon. Too bad he got sidetracked for a while by shitheads like Rider, RaSheed, ZBO, and the rest.

 

[ABM]

I loved Damon. Too bad he got sidetracked for a while by shitheads like Rider, RaSheed, ZBO, and the rest.

I live in Centralia/Chehalis when he paid a visit.

 

[Natebishop3]

I don't think the 2000 team was broken up too early. Bob traded Brian Grant because Grant wanted max money, and Grant obviously wasn't worth max money (as proven in Miami). He traded Jermaine O'Neal because Jermaine wanted to be traded.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

To be sure, he's a pot head extraordinaire and while he stills shows the effects of being permanently high, at least he's candid.

 

[THE HCP]

He's a tool! Grew up with Damon, same neighborhood. Once I started working down there, acted like we were lifelong friends when nobody was around, wouldn't give me the time of day if ANY players were around. Douchebag!

 

[ABM]

He's a tool! Grew up with Damon, same neighborhood. Once I started working down there, acted like we were lifelong friends when nobody was around, wouldn't give me the time of day if ANY players were around. Douchebag!

You learned from the best.

 

[Rodolfo]

He's a tool! Grew up with Damon, same neighborhood. Once I started working down there, acted like we were lifelong friends when nobody was around, wouldn't give me the time of day if ANY players were around. Douchebag!

You didn't call him fams in front of the team did you?

 

[julius]

He's a tool! Grew up with Damon, same neighborhood. Once I started working down there, acted like we were lifelong friends when nobody was around, wouldn't give me the time of day if ANY players were around. Douchebag!

I hate people like that. Did you ever go "look man, in about 10 years or so, I'm going to be the dorkiest guy on a message board full of huge dorks. And not only that, I'm gonna marry some smokin' hot babe, and guys are going to make sexual innuendo jokes about her all the time. No, Damon, innuendo. Say it with me. In. You. En. D'oh. No, I didn't just learn that word from Ruben. No, it isn't a type of bong. No, seriously. No, I'm not gay. Damnit Damon, would you...no seriously, stop laughing. For real, she's hot. No, I didn't buy her from Russia. Man, stop clownin' me man...Oh hey Rasheed. So Damon, I was saying I'm gonna be a big time...hey, Damon..I'm talking to you. Damon? Damon? Why you walking away? what the hell? Stupid little shit..I'm gonna go practice my editing skills. Because I'm the Latino causing panic, and I am out of here! Now where's my Coors, bitch!?"


Because I bet if you did, he would've left you alone when players weren't around too.

 

[LameR]

I hate people like that. Did you ever go "look man, in about 10 years or so, I'm going to be the dorkiest guy on a message board full of huge dorks. And not only that, I'm gonna marry some smokin' hot babe, and guys are going to make sexual innuendo jokes about her all the time. No, Damon, innuendo. Say it with me. In. You. En. D'oh. No, I didn't just learn that word from Ruben. No, it isn't a type of bong. No, seriously. No, I'm not gay. Damnit Damon, would you...no seriously, stop laughing. For real, she's hot. No, I didn't buy her from Russia. Man, stop clownin' me man...Oh hey Rasheed. So Damon, I was saying I'm gonna be a big time...hey, Damon..I'm talking to you. Damon? Damon? Why you walking away? what the hell? Stupid little shit..I'm gonna go practice my editing skills. Because I'm the Latino causing panic, and I am out of here! Now where's my Coors, bitch!?"


Because I bet if you did, he would've left you alone when players weren't around too.

That was awesome.

 

[BlayZa]

im a damon fan, but after reading all this - i like him a little more. thanks to all concerned.

 

[jlprk]

1) Blazers management definitely broke-up that 2000 team about two to three years too early. May have had to tweak a couple of 'small" pieces, but they still had "it".

2) Calls the Blazers far and above the best run operation in the league....from the secretaries, to security, to overall management, to the team buffet.

4) Thinks the Portland media is far too harsh for "the size of town it is." (Go figure. )

1) Thank you, Oregonian.

2) Thank you, Paul Allen.

4) He means that 10 big-time haters writing media articles is what you'd expect in a city 20 times the size of Portland.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Fuck Damon. Whiny ass bitch.

 

[HailBlazers]

Fuck Canzano. Bald face bitch

 

[Rodolfo]

Damon may suck but Willie Stoudamire is a really nice guy!

 

[Mediocre Man]

Damon is a whiny little bitch, that was part of a group of people responsible for a lot of jokes heaped on Portland. He can go fuck himself for all I care.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Fuck Canzano. Bald face bitch

+1

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[EL PRESIDENTE]

Damon is a whiny little bitch, that was part of a group of people responsible for a lot of jokes heaped on Portland. He can go fuck himself for all I care.

he has always been the "inside source on the blazers" that leaked shit to J-Quick back in the day.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Some people are velcro (Sheed) and some are teflon (Damon).

Damon was just as over-paid as Sheed, a far less valuable player, and just as bad a "character" guy. (Sheed never got caught with SALE weight in drugs) Somehow, he wound up less hated than his team-mates.

I have no doubt that a big part of his immunity, was his role as locker-room snitch.

 

[Rodolfo]

Some people are velcro (Sheed) and some are teflon (Damon).

Damon was just as over-paid as Sheed, a far less valuable player, and just as bad a "character" guy. (Sheed never got caught with SALE weight in drugs) Somehow, he wound up less hated than his team-mates.

I have no doubt that a big part of his immunity, was his role as locker-room snitch.

Sheed was more hated because he acted like a fucking child on a nightly basis, on our television screens.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Some people are velcro (Sheed) and some are teflon (Damon).

Damon was just as over-paid as Sheed, a far less valuable player, and just as bad a "character" guy. (Sheed never got caught with SALE weight in drugs) Somehow, he wound up less hated than his team-mates.

I have no doubt that a big part of his immunity, was his role as locker-room snitch.

I hate both with a passion, but I almost respect Sheed more because he didn't act differently depending on where he was. Sheed was and is an ass, but he was like on and off the floor to people he didn't know. Damon is an ass that tried to make peple believe he wasn't, while Sheed was an ass that didn't care what people thought.

 

[Fez Hammersticks]

I can't take anything Damon says seriously.

He tried sneaking weed wrapped in TIN FOIL at an airport, he's seriously lacking in the IQ department.

 

[BlazerCaravan]

I can't take anything Damon says seriously.

He tried sneaking weed wrapped in TIN FOIL at an airport, he's seriously lacking in the IQ department.

Exactly.

 

[jlprk]

I hate both with a passion, but I almost respect Sheed more because he didn't act differently depending on where he was. Sheed was and is an ass, but he was like on and off the floor to people he didn't know. Damon is an ass that tried to make peple believe he wasn't, while Sheed was an ass that didn't care what people thought.

Interesting classification system. Are there any examples in Blazer history of the type of ass who acts on but not off the floor to people he knows but not to people he doesn't know and tries to make people believe what he really is but who cares what people think?

Maybe Buck Williams or Lamarcus Aldridge?

 

[STOMP]

Sheed was more hated because he acted like a fucking child on a nightly basis, on our television screens.

I think it was more that Damon was never viewed as that talented so "fans" didn't scapegoat him when the team was eliminated. His continual heart to hearts with Quick earned him a free pass from the O's witch hunt. Sheed got the Techs, but Damon was a total me first bitch on the court and the biggest bonehead/embarrassment in the history of the club off it... easily my least favorite Blazer.

STOMP

 

[crandc]

I do not and did not hate either Damon or Sheed. The only Blazers I really disliked to that point were Ruben Patterson and Bonzi Wells. Dontonio Wingfield turned out to be a total scumbag but that did not surface until after he was through playing on the Blazers, or any other team.

 

[Public Defender]

Damon was ... the biggest bonehead/embarrassment in the history of the club off it...

STOMP

You've got to be kidding. Bigger than Qyntel Woods? Pulled over for speeding and showed a cop his rookie NBA card, not to mention his shameful connections to dog-fighting.

Bigger than JR Rider? Sold cell phones out of the trunk of his car and busted for smoking pot out of a pop can.

Bigger than Zach Randolph? There's the drag-racing on Broadway, the "attending a strip club while on bereavement leave" and Z-Bo's connection to a gunfight in Indiana...

Bigger than Ruben Patterson? Assaulted a man in Cleveland and had to plead "no contest" to a sex abuse charge in Washington.

Bigger than Rasheed Wallace? Threatened a referee on the Rose Garden's loading dock and had to sit one of the longest suspensions in Blazer history (if not the longest), as a result. To say nothing of the embarassing "both teams played hard" episode, and his participation in the Stoudamire "smoking hummer" incident.

I won't argue that Stoudamire as a player had major problems - he was too short to guard anyone and he took too long to set up the offense and was too eager to shoot (and too likely to miss) to be a great offensive point guard. But off the court? Sure, he had three pot instances I can recall - the "foil" move at the airport, the "smoking hummer" on I-5, and the mysterious quantity found at his house in LO. All are dumb, but I don't think they're nearly as embarrassing or disturbing as what was done by the five players above.

 

[oldmangrouch]

The ref Sheed supposedly threatened was Tim freaking Donaghy.

Does anybody still believe that accusation was legit?

 

[barfo]

Bigger than Rasheed Wallace? Threatened a referee on the Rose Garden's loading dock and had to sit one of the longest suspensions in Blazer history (if not the longest), as a result. To say nothing of the embarassing "both teams played hard" episode, and his participation in the Stoudamire "smoking hummer" incident.

Yelled at a crooked ref, had some fun with the media, and smoked pot after a game. Doesn't strike me as particularly embarrassing or disturbing behavior.

barfo