NBA.com article: In Trying Personal Times, Blazers Show an Amazing Strength

[SodaPopinski]

http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/scott_howard_cooper/11/24/blazers/index.html

This time, it's Paul Allen, the owner. Assistant coach Maurice Lucas: cancer, too. Brian Grant, the retired power forward, popular wherever he's been, still a resident of the Portland area: Parkinson's.

What a cruel convergence for the Blazers. This was supposed to be the team's most dramatic season in years. But not like this, with players and coaches in pre-game prayer for their own.

The owner. An assistant coach whose number is retired. A former player and unofficial Greg Oden tutor.

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[BenDavis503]

Good read. Thanks for posting this.