Remembering The Most Notorious Moments Of Portland’s Jail Blazers Era

[SlyPokerDog]

The NBA, like any other professional sports league, has always had its share of miscreants and reprobates, but rarely has a single team had so many unsavory figures who racked up so many different infractions over an extended period of time. That was the Portland Trail Blazers from the early-to-mid 2000s....

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[ripcityboy]

The most notorious moments we will never know about because they involved private detectives and "hush up" money.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

The most notorious moments we will never know about because they involved private detectives and "hush up" money.

And ketchup bottles and passed out strippers.

 

[julius]

Boy, those sure were proud moments in Blazerdom.

 

[ripcityboy]

And ketchup bottles and passed out strippers.

Jager!

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Boy, those sure were proud moments in Blazerdom.

And they were a game 6 meltdown away from being Portland legends. Winning cures all.

 

[julius]

And they were a game 6 meltdown away from being Portland legends. Winning cures all.

Game 7, but the Jail Blazer era shouldn't include that team. Ruben, Darius, Qyntel and Zach weren't on that team.

 

[DaLincolnJones]

meh..light weight stories..my personal favorite was Bonzi getting pulled over while smoking pot out of a pop can..as he was transporting stolen cell phones

 

[SlyPokerDog]

meh..light weight stories..my personal favorite was Bonzi getting pulled over while smoking pot out of a pop can..as he was transporting stolen cell phones

Bonzi never did any of that.

 

[julius]

meh..light weight stories..my personal favorite was Bonzi getting pulled over while smoking pot out of a pop can..as he was transporting stolen cell phones

that was, I believe, JR Rider.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Still waiting for ZBO's impending federal indictment.....

 

[Mediocre Man]

that was, I believe, JR Rider.

It was.

Didn't that lead to blacks still getting hung 40 miles outside Portland comment?

 

[jlprk]

Still waiting for ZBO's impending federal indictment.....

Any day now. You know the Oregonian's motto. "We deliver the anecdotes we promise, right to your doorstep."

 

[Driew]

I can't wait to see the 30 for 30 on the Jail blazer era! Think it is supposed to come out sometime this year.

 

[BlayZa]

off court it was a bit of a shambles, but on court, i still maintain, it was hella fun to watch

 

[jlprk]

And I'll tell you what I maintain. After watching George Karl arguing with his Sonic players for years, I maintain that the Oregonian reported every little story they could find to destroy 21 straight years of playoffs. As a traditional Republican paper that goes way back to the racist days, the Oregonian hated white citizens doing an about-face and hero-izing a bunch of young black men who believe that drugs should be legalized.

Of the many Oregonian anecdotes, there were actually only about 3 times a player got into legal trouble...only about 3 that Seattle papers would have reported about Sonics. And in Seattle they would have been reported once, then forgotten by the public, not repeated ad nauseum in the Oregonian echo chamber. Remember when they put up the stories permanently on their website, conspicuously so you couldn't read the daily Blazer news without colliding with the old news?

 

[DaLincolnJones]

that was, I believe, JR Rider.

yeah...my mistake. Thanks.

 

[julius]

It was.

Didn't that lead to blacks still getting hung 40 miles outside Portland comment?

I believe so.