Notice Clyde Drexler’s stern message to Damian Lillard after CJ McCollum trade & more

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If marriage is in the same category as a career, where the goal is to reach the ultimate level, then sure. Ask your wife if marriage and a job are in the same category. Will be interested in what she says.
I'm sure if past employees were repeatedly counseling your current employees to leave your business, you wouldn't look kindly on that either.

Thing is, for fans, this isn't just business. There's an emotional component to most non-vulcans when following a team.
 
The tnt all time draft from the All time a 75 + wild card, seeing Chuck's reaction to Kenny drafting Clyde matches my opinion of this nonsense
 
I'm sure if past employees were repeatedly counseling your current employees to leave your business, you wouldn't look kindly on that either.

Thing is, for fans, this isn't just business. There's an emotional component to most non-vulcans when following a team.

Of course there is emotion involved, but the goal is the same. If we take the marriage analogy, the average first marriage lasts around 7 years. Clyde was here 11+ years. Took that team to a contender status for a longer period of time than any other team in Blazers history. Got an opportunity to go home and win the ultimate prize. Personally, I was devastated he left, but happy he got the chance to win a ring. Years later, someone interviewed him and he answered a question. We can not like it (which I've stated twice I didn't like it and thought he should have kept that to himself) but it's ironic how much people are talking about Drexler's bitterness.....in some very bitter posts.

Clyde left and got a ring. So did Kersey. Was hoping Porter would as well, but he just missed. That the latter 2 claimed Portland as home, but Clyde claimed his original home as his home, we in large part seem to take quite offense to. And that's fine, as fans we are emotional. Just find it ironic that his bitterness is met with....so much bitterness.

I am grateful for the heights he led us to. Wish it would happen again soon.
 
Clyde A.K.A Houston Rocket Jock Licker has rubbed me the wrong way ever since he said, We're (Rockets) better than THEM ( Blazers) in a League Pass game many years ago. I get you're apart of that organizations broadcast team, but don't trample on the team where you played your best basketball, and fans beloved you. Them? You were them. He's seems to love nothing more than to see rip city fail.
 
How often does Clyde mention that his Houston team was lucky not to have faced Michael Jordan's Bulls in the finals? Probably never. He was in the right place at the right time.
His Blazer team, Charles Barkley, Gary Payton, Stockton and Malone, weren't as lucky.
 
When I was an early teen I met Clyde a number of times, there is no doubt that he is nice guy. My personal theory about why he is prone to be a critic of the moves our franchise makes is that he is constantly trying to justify to himself why it was necessary for him to leave Portland for his hometown of Houston. I think that he has to justify that our organization would have never have been able to get him a championship. So like he said about Dame the only reason he would have stayed would be to be worshiped by the fan base and area.

loved watching Drexler in his day and will go down as one of my favorites. He was every bit as talented as Jordan but lacked the mental toughness to be as good as Jordan. Disappointed to continue to see him be negative about a franchise and fan base that had him as the their GOAT. Guess that’s why we really shouldn’t be doing the same thing to Dame as fans we should appreciate the loyalty he has shown us and our franchise. If he wants to and is willing to stick the tough times out we should do the same for him regardless of assets we could get in trade for him.
 
Yeah, Clyde was my childhood idol so I'll never disown him but he should shut the fuck up. That being said we did send out the three best players as far as public perception goes and only got back one draft pick. Don't get me wrong if the Pelicans pick conveys the CJ/Larry trade will be a big win in hindsight and maybe that's not Cronin getting lucky, maybe that's foresight on his part.

The first trade was indefensible though. We know that there were other teams interested in those guys and it was made far too early for anyone to believe that our front office knew that they were getting back the best value possible.

That being said, Clyde only addressed CJ and we know we got at least close to good value for him. Then he went on to basically say that Dame would be showing that his desire to be praised in Portland is greater than his desire to compete, that if he stays his ego is more important to him than his drive for success... that was some fucking bullshit.
An ass take from someone (Drexler) who obviously doesn't want to have his name taken off the top of the records book.
 
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I think part of my issue is the whole titles or bust defining a career. Current anti-vax shit aside, does anyone rank Payton over Stockton strictly because Payton got a ring and Stockton didn't ring chase at the end of his career? Does it make him less of a competitor? Dirk's team was aging and been knocked out in the 1st round 3 of the past 4 years before their title run. He was Dame's same age. Was everyone clamoring for him to leave? Should he have left and tried to join a super team? Was he less competitive for sticking around?
 
It also feels shitty that fans, or ex players, will say a guy is complacent, only cares about his ego instead of success, but then mock Durant for his rings.
 
Nothing against Drexler he was great while playing but he also had pretty good supporting cast around him while he played here too. He had 2 chances to win it all in Portland and that team fail both times. There a lot great players that didn't win championships but that doesn't make them less of a great player. Will Dame ever win a championship probably not just because how a few teams load there roster ups. Plus winning championship everything has fall in place as healthy team and some luck on the way.
 
Of course there is emotion involved, but the goal is the same. If we take the marriage analogy, the average first marriage lasts around 7 years. Clyde was here 11+ years. Took that team to a contender status for a longer period of time than any other team in Blazers history. Got an opportunity to go home and win the ultimate prize. Personally, I was devastated he left, but happy he got the chance to win a ring. Years later, someone interviewed him and he answered a question. We can not like it (which I've stated twice I didn't like it and thought he should have kept that to himself) but it's ironic how much people are talking about Drexler's bitterness.....in some very bitter posts.

Clyde left and got a ring. So did Kersey. Was hoping Porter would as well, but he just missed. That the latter 2 claimed Portland as home, but Clyde claimed his original home as his home, we in large part seem to take quite offense to. And that's fine, as fans we are emotional. Just find it ironic that his bitterness is met with....so much bitterness.

I am grateful for the heights he led us to. Wish it would happen again soon.
It’s weird though. Sticking with the marriage analogy, Clyde is like the doctor who was married to someone through college and medical school. That person helped pay for school and was loving and cared for him a lot. He becomes a doctor and finds a lot of success but he decides that he wants kids and his wife can’t have kids. So she understands and helps him find a new wife who can have kids. He has kids and he’s happy and now he pretends like his ex didn’t do anything for him and he’s telling her new husband that he should also leave.
 
It’s weird though. Sticking with the marriage analogy, Clyde is like the doctor who was married to someone through college and medical school. That person helped pay for school and was loving and cared for him a lot. He becomes a doctor and finds a lot of success but he decides that he wants kids and his wife can’t have kids. So she understands and helps him find a new wife who can have kids. He has kids and he’s happy and now he pretends like his ex didn’t do anything for him and he’s telling her new husband that he should also leave.
It's actually a lot more like he left the wife that got him through school and he knew his whole life for a new one and then left his second wife for his first. It's crazy to me how often people seemingly forget that Houston is Clyde's hometown and where he went to college. It kind of sucks that his loyalty isn't here but it only sucks for us, it's not disloyal to have loyalty to the place that made you over the place where you had the bulk of your professional success. Don't get me wrong, as far as Dame is concerned he needs to shut the fuck up but as far as he is concerned you've got the first wife confused with the second.
 
Who knows if the scoring thing means anything to him. If Dame stays here long enough, he will have most of them due to longevity. It's amazing Clyde still leads in assists being that he was a SG/SF, and Clyde will likely have the Blazer Playoff wins for quite some time.
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This seems like an odd veiled dig at Lillard, that him getting the scoring record is more about longevity. Lillard has played 711 games for Portland. Clyde played in 867. Dame is 530 points behind Clyde, in 150 less games. He can average 20 a game for less than 30 games and top CLyde in less games. But Dame beating him is more about longevity? He's 200 assists behind Clyde. But when he passes him there, it's about longevity? ok
 
It also feels shitty that fans, or ex players, will say a guy is complacent, only cares about his ego instead of success, but then mock Durant for his rings.
They're probably different people.
 
This seems like an odd veiled dig at Lillard, that him getting the scoring record is more about longevity. Lillard has played 711 games for Portland. Clyde played in 867. Dame is 530 points behind Clyde, in 150 less games. He can average 20 a game for less than 30 games and top CLyde in less games. But Dame beating him is more about longevity? He's 200 assists behind Clyde. But when he passes him there, it's about longevity? ok

Oh my goodness, this is ridiculous. Anything that isn't just the way someone else wants it is an "odd veiled dig"? Be better. It is an observation. If he wasn't here very long, he wouldn't have many of the career total records. Is that a shot at someone like Roy whose career was cut short due to injury? The assist thing is also just an observation that Clyde, playing SG/SF, is still the leader after all this time in assists to any PG that has ever played. Dame will pass him. They are both great players.

Stop searching for negativity when there isn't any. Maybe that is the way some people chose to live their lives. Guess I shouldn't be surprised any more.
 
This seems like an odd veiled dig at Lillard, that him getting the scoring record is more about longevity. Lillard has played 711 games for Portland. Clyde played in 867. Dame is 530 points behind Clyde, in 150 less games. He can average 20 a game for less than 30 games and top CLyde in less games. But Dame beating him is more about longevity? He's 200 assists behind Clyde. But when he passes him there, it's about longevity? ok
Great post. Dame will have the records because he has been great in a Blazers uniform, PERIOD!
 
Great post. Dame will have the records because he has been great in a Blazers uniform, PERIOD!
Not a great post. Walton was great in a Blazers uniform but he doesn't have any of the records because of a lack of longevity, PERIOD!
 
Oh my goodness, this is ridiculous. Anything that isn't just the way someone else wants it is an "odd veiled dig"? Be better. It is an observation. If he wasn't here very long, he wouldn't have many of the career total records. Is that a shot at someone like Roy whose career was cut short due to injury? The assist thing is also just an observation that Clyde, playing SG/SF, is still the leader after all this time in assists to any PG that has ever played. Dame will pass him. They are both great players.

Stop searching for negativity when there isn't any. Maybe that is the way some people chose to live their lives. Guess I shouldn't be surprised any more.
Obviously if he wasn't here long, he wouldn't get those records. But to say he'll have them because of longevity is taking an unnecessary dig at him when he will have spent less time than Drexler here to get those records. I don't have to search hard for negativity in your posts, it's frequently there, whether out in the open, or right under the surface.
 
Not a great post. Walton was great in a Blazers uniform but he doesn't have any of the records because of a lack of longevity, PERIOD!
Obviously someone has to play long enough to set all time records. But there's a difference in it being almost entirely because of longevity, a guy hanging on and hanging on to surpass a record, and a guy doing it in less time than others. If Dame was short the record at age 37, and was here playing 19 minutes a night, getting 7 points per game, and THEN broke the record, it'd be because of longevity. Not when he does it in less games played than Drexler.
 
Obviously if he wasn't here long, he wouldn't get those records. But to say he'll have them because of longevity is taking an unnecessary dig at him when he will have spent less time than Drexler here to get those records. I don't have to search hard for negativity in your posts, it's frequently there, whether out in the open, or right under the surface.

Clyde has them due to longevity. Dame will break them due to longevity. Not a dig....unless you are putting one there on your own.
 
Obviously someone has to play long enough to set all time records. But there's a difference in it being almost entirely because of longevity, a guy hanging on and hanging on to surpass a record, and a guy doing it in less time than others. If Dame was short the record at age 37, and was here playing 19 minutes a night, getting 7 points per game, and THEN broke the record, it'd be because of longevity. Not when he does it in less games played than Drexler.
I took @TBpup 's post differently than you did. I thought he was saying that due to longevity Dame is bound to pass Clyde's records but not that Dame couldn't and won't pass them without having more longevity than Clyde. That's just how I read it.
 
I took @TBpup 's post differently than you did. I thought he was saying that due to longevity Dame is bound to pass Clyde's records but not that Dame couldn't and won't pass them without having more longevity than Clyde. That's just how I read it.
Due to longevity would imply to me, that it was taking him more time to do it. Due to being a superior scorer is why he will pass Drexler.
 
Due to longevity would imply to me, that it was taking him more time to do it. Due to being a superior scorer is why he will pass Drexler.

Longevity is REQUIRED to have those types of record. You have to be very good, for a long period of time. Both are incredible players. Both are Top-75. Likely if I pointed out where they were ranked, I'd be dissing Dame somehow.

Feel free to mind read, assign negative intent, or whatever hallucination you would like to apply.
 
It's actually a lot more like he left the wife that got him through school and he knew his whole life for a new one and then left his second wife for his first. It's crazy to me how often people seemingly forget that Houston is Clyde's hometown and where he went to college. It kind of sucks that his loyalty isn't here but it only sucks for us, it's not disloyal to have loyalty to the place that made you over the place where you had the bulk of your professional success. Don't get me wrong, as far as Dame is concerned he needs to shut the fuck up but as far as he is concerned you've got the first wife confused with the second.

Nahhhhhh...... Houston is basically his parents. The Rockets are his second wife.

You aren't born into marriage..... at least not in the US. Some places might be like that. The city nurtured him and obviously he has a lot of love for Houston, but he was drafted by Portland and we built around him. We passed on Michael Jordan for his ungrateful ass. Clearly he never loved Portland. Kinda reminds me of Brandon Roy honestly. I don't think Roy ever loved Portland either.
 

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