Could You Agree With Me That.......

[ABM]

Sydney Wicks was the "original" Jail-Blazer?

IIRC, he was bounced out of town on his keister. Widely booed every time he returned (with the Celtics?).

What Wicks knucklehead stories do you recall?

 

[ABM]

I thought This Was Interesting:

“We degenerated into a group of individuals tonight and never resembled a team,” Wicks told Schonely. “We played like it was just a pickup game in a high school gym. Guys just wandered on and off the court and never gave up the ball. Everybody out there is playing for themselves, and it stinks. Some people are playing team ball; some people aren’t. We’re out there getting the crap kicked out of us by teams we can play with. There are too many guys dribbling with their heads down and not looking for others.

“All this, coupled with the fact that everybody expected me to somehow turn this franchise around, has been very disappointing to me. A lot of people in Portland are supporting us right now, but I don’t think we warrant that support. I wouldn’t go see the Trail Blazers because we’re not playing professional basketball.”

 

[MickZagger]

I've heard stories that his teammates couldn't stand him because of his huge ego.

 

[Shooter]

Sydney Wicks was the "original" Jail-Blazer?

Huh? Wicks wasn't even close to being a Jail Blazer. He was never caught smoking pot, or driving recklessly, or participating in dog fights, or getting in trouble at strip clubs, or punching his teammates, or cursing at rental car staff, or any of the other things the "Jail Blazers" did. The worst you can say about him is that he was a bit of a loner, and he had an ego. Period.

 

[ABM]

Huh? Wicks wasn't even close to being a Jail Blazer. He was never caught smoking pot.

"Caught" is the operative word here.

True story: A friend of mine from (Lakeridge) high school was Wicks' personal dope dealer. And, according to my friend, not only did Wicks smoke mass amounts of pot, he hosted "great" parties. as well. (Not sure how he hid all that, actually.)

Just because he wasn't caught doesn't mean he wasn't a true knucklehead and "worthy" of being a jail-Blazer ......even though the name hadn't been coined at the time.

As David Lee Roth so eloquently said, though, it's all water under the dam.

 

[Nikolokolus]

"Caught" is the operative word here.

True story: A friend of mine from (Lakeridge) high school was Wicks' personal dope dealer. And, according to my friend, not only did Wicks smoke mass amounts of pot, he hosted "great" parties. as well. (Not sure how he hid all that, actually.)

Just because he wasn't caught doesn't mean he wasn't a true knucklehead and "worthy" of being a jail-Blazer ......even though the name hadn't been coined at the time.

As David Lee Roth so eloquently said, though, it's all water under the dam.

Honestly? Good for Sydney Wicks. It was the fucking seventies, who wasn't getting stoned and partying?

Secondly, why the hell are we talking about Sydney Wicks 30+ years after his last game as a Blazer?!

 

[ABM]

Honestly? Good for Sydney Wicks. It was the fucking seventies, who wasn't getting stoned and partying?

Secondly, why the hell are we talking about Sydney Wicks 30+ years after his last game as a Blazer?!

a) Honestly

b) Elephino

 

[Shooter]

True story: A friend of mine from (Lakeridge) high school was Wicks' personal dope dealer. And, according to my friend, not only did Wicks smoke mass amounts of pot, he hosted "great" parties. as well. (Not sure how he hid all that, actually.)

A friend of yours was his "personal dope dealer?" Excuse me if I take that with a big grain of salt. But even if true, it hardly makes much of a case. Walton smoked pot as well, but that doesn't make him a Jail Blazer, either.

By the way, last time I checked, "throwing great parties" was hardly an illegal act.

 

[OddEnormous]

"Caught" is the operative word here.

True story: A friend of mine from (Lakeridge) high school was Wicks' personal dope dealer. And, according to my friend, not only did Wicks smoke mass amounts of pot, he hosted "great" parties. as well. (Not sure how he hid all that, actually.)

Are yu a blu blood?

 

[Pinwheel1]

The rumors I heard was that it was Sydney's "wick" that was legendary.

 

[maxiep]

Are yu a blu blood?

Well, he's a Columbia Blue blood.

 

[ehizzy3]

smoking weed makes you a thug? damn im living a thug life!!!!!!!!

 

[THE HCP]

Yo Yo Yo........... I'm livin' the "Snug Life"

 

[ABM]

A friend of yours was his "personal dope dealer?" Excuse me if I take that with a big grain of salt. But even if true, it hardly makes much of a case. Walton smoked pot as well, but that doesn't make him a Jail Blazer, either.

By the way, last time I checked, "throwing great parties" was hardly an illegal act.

When I say "personal dope dealer", I meant that he often cruised over to Wicks' house, sometimes more than once a week, delivering the goods. Who knows, Wicks may have had other contacts, as well.

Secondly, a "great" party was simply an euphemism for dope-fest.

Question: Would you have considered, for example, Damon a jail-Blazer? If so, why? What were his biggest offenses in this regard? Was he simply a doper, as well?

In all honesty, me thinks the Whitsitt era jail-Blazer stigma was so prevalent, any given Blazer at that time could, say, simply be caught for speeding, then, fairly or unfairly, thrown into that bunch.

Now that I think of it, it might be very easy to say that, in some cases, the jail-Blazer moniker was an unfair rap. Otherwise, throw the whole lot of them into the mix.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

A friend of yours was his "personal dope dealer?" Excuse me if I take that with a big grain of salt.

You must not know ABM very well.

Ask him about "the ladies".