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[SpamKing]

http://www.oregonlive.com/clackamascounty/index.ssf/2011/08/police_serve_search_warrant_at.html

 

[SlyPokerDog]

It's cool that so many former Blazers continue to call Portland home.

 

[Wheels]

SPAMKING LIVES!!!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

http://eye-on-basketball.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/22748484/31468993

 

[BrianFromWA]

Golliver's writing for CBS?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Golliver's writing for CBS?

Has been for a while now.

 

[Further]

The only thing that jumped out at me was that Randolph is now 30 years old.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Once a piece of shit.......I don't care how much they might help a team win, the players you have on the roster must have some sort at least average character.

 

[BlazerBeav]

But he's a changed guy now in Memphis. Must be the Portland culture, he can't help himself while here.

 

[BrianFromWA]

Or that dang Indianapolis culture.

maybe it's just b/c Portland and Indy are racist cities trying to keep a successful black man down.

 

[THE HCP]

I was held down by black men once!

 

[Charcoal Filtered]

Or that dang Indianapolis culture.

maybe it's just b/c Portland and Indy are racist cities trying to keep a successful black man down.

He has had run-ins with the law in Memphis too. Add Marion and Anderson as other cities in Indiana that are trying to keep him down.

Hopefully the supposed victim in this case got a good asswhipping. Going to Zach Randolph's house to sell pot? Really?

 

[jlprk]

Emily Post says the best etiquette when you go to a rich guy's house to sell drugs and get beaten up is to report it to the police. She says the revenge outweighs your prison term where you can learn to cook the cheese fondant au clair.

 

[barfo]

But he's a changed guy now in Memphis. Must be the Portland culture, he can't help himself while here.

Portland culture? Nonsense, it's the West Linn culture that is corrupting the poor boy.

barfo

 

[KevinJBonn]

Portland culture? Nonsense, it's the West Linn culture that is corrupting the poor boy.

barfo

As a lifelong West Linn resident of the WL, I find actual validity to this statement. Wouldn't be the first time some spoiled rich kids beat up a drug dealer.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Emily Post says the best etiquette when you go to a rich guy's house to sell drugs and get beaten up is to report it to the police. She says the revenge outweighs your prison term where you can learn to cook the cheese fondant au clair.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

 

[Haakzilla]

...you can take a player out of Portland, but you can't take the TrailGangster out of a player

 

[dpc]

Randolph in the news again

http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/6885625/police-search-oregon-home-memphis-grizzlies-zach-randolph

 

[BrianFromWA]

A couple of fun blurbs in that article (at least for me)

Randolph has not spoken to the officers based on the advice of his lawyer, Rhodes said. He didn't know the lawyer's name.

Nobody answered the intercom system at his gated home in West Linn on Monday. Two sport-utility vehicles drove away, and their occupants did not stop to speak with a reporter from The Associated Press.

The Grizzlies declined to comment.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I think it's pretty that clear when the league and the players union finally reach an agreement they're going to have to wait 6 weeks to report to training camp so the players will have time to detox so they can pass a pee test.

 

[Draco]

A couple of fun blurbs in that article (at least for me)

The officer didn't know the lawyers name or Randolph didn't know his lawyers name?

I'm not surprised nobody spoke to the media. It would be more unusual if they did.

 

[jlprk]

A couple of fun blurbs in that article (at least for me)

Yeah, I've never heard of a player or team granting an interview about a bust, especially on the day of the bust. What is the surprise?

 

[BrianFromWA]

Guh. Each of the quotes made me smile.

1. Poorly written, probably, but I got the mental image of Z-bo saying "my lawyer told me not to talk to you," the reporter saying "what's his name?" and Z-bo going "Dunno," while the reporter asks himself if Z-bo's blatently lying to him or is just a few rebounds short of a double-double.

2. Instead of the usual "Player X could not be reached for comment" or "his publicist declined to answer questions", we're treated to an SUV escape while the intrepid reporter is stuck at a gate's intercom.

3. It didn't say "The Trail Blazers decline to comment."

 

[jlprk]

2. I think that AP (the article carried on ESPN) condensed the Oregonian article and used some of Quick's hayseed wording. So the AP version lacks the usual professional cookie-cutter phrases. It's vintage cornpone Oregonian to cast the reporter as a participant in the story. Here, he plays the victim, left standing at the intercom like a wronged waif stood up on a date.

1. But if you thought it was Zach who told the reporter that Zach wouldn't be talking to reporters, you weren't thinking.

So I agree with you on #2 but not #1.