Should the Trail Blazers retire Roy's #7 jersey?

[Shaboid]

Only after they retire my jersey first. 69

 

[oldmangrouch]

Here's a radical notion: if a player wasn't playing for your team at the time of retirement - why would you retire their number? Let Houston have Clyde, Boston can have Walton, the T-Wolves get Roy, etc.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Jesus, you people who don't want to retire his number, what are you thinking? If we can't retire the number of someone who is EASILY a top ten player in franchise history, who gave his fucking knees for this franchise, who the fuck's number CAN we retire?

How about Moses Malone? He didn't retire as a Blazer either, but he had a HOF worthy career.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

How about Moses Malone? He didn't retire as a Blazer either, but he had a HOF worthy career.

Did he play all of his prime with the Blazers? No, obviously not. So you're being facetious. You SHOULD have said "what about Greg Oden?" because that's closer to a counterexample, but of course Oden barely played and was not the best player on the team when he did. So.

I mean, seriously? Would anyone object to retiring Sabas's number? You'd be stupid to, and if you don't, Roy has a clearer case.

 

[Rastapopoulos]

Here's a radical notion: if a player wasn't playing for your team at the time of retirement - why would you retire their number? Let Houston have Clyde, Boston can have Walton, the T-Wolves get Roy, etc.

Come on, you're just trolling. Washington gets Jordan, Toronto gets Hakeem, Orlando gets Ewing...etc.

 

[EL PRESIDENTE]

Jesus, you people who don't want to retire his number, what are you thinking? If we can't retire the number of someone who is EASILY a top ten player in franchise history, who gave his fucking knees for this franchise, who the fuck's number CAN we retire?

Jerome Kersey.

 

[tiredhunter]

Did he play all of his prime with the Blazers? No, obviously not. So you're being facetious. You SHOULD have said "what about Greg Oden?" because that's closer to a counterexample, but of course Oden barely played and was not the best player on the team when he did. So.

I mean, seriously? Would anyone object to retiring Sabas's number? You'd be stupid to, and if you don't, Roy has a clearer case.

I imagine a great number of people would object, on the same basis. Sabonis was important to the franchise, but didn't do near enough for exclusive honors.

 

[riverman]

Jesus, you people who don't want to retire his number, what are you thinking? If we can't retire the number of someone who is EASILY a top ten player in franchise history, who gave his fucking knees for this franchise, who the fuck's number CAN we retire?

I'm going to blame his lifelong practice of martial arts on his knees...he's done that long before he was a Blazer kicking and being kicked in competition...he was damaged before he was drafted..he played damaged his entire career and got paid really well to retire that young...BRoy made his own choices..the Blazers didn't break him, he had no meniscus to speak of to begin with...guy had a lot of heart in a game...no questioning that

 

[UncleCliffy'sDaddy]

Jesus, you people who don't want to retire his number, what are you thinking? If we can't retire the number of someone who is EASILY a top ten player in franchise history, who gave his fucking knees for this franchise, who the fuck's number CAN we retire?

Roy didn’t “give his knees to this franchise.” He gave his knees to the state of Washington in high school and college. We got the tattered remnants. He was a wonderful player and made the Blazers relevant again after a short hiatus from relevancy. But he didn’t “save” the team and he didn’t have a long enough career to make retiring his number worthy. So no.....

 

[Orion Bailey]

Did he play all of his prime with the Blazers? No, obviously not. So you're being facetious. You SHOULD have said "what about Greg Oden?" because that's closer to a counterexample, but of course Oden barely played and was not the best player on the team when he did. So.

I mean, seriously? Would anyone object to retiring Sabas's number? You'd be stupid to, and if you don't, Roy has a clearer case.

Roy didnt play his whole career with the Blazers either. And his prime was about a year and a half. We have way too many borderline retirees. We need to be very selective moving forward.

Not buying what you are selling. Sorry.

 

[oldmangrouch]

Come on, you're just trolling. Washington gets Jordan, Toronto gets Hakeem, Orlando gets Ewing...etc.

I prefer to think of it as calculated hyperbole.

 

[Blazers1977]

God you people are such ingrates!

Roy played injured for us, likely saved the team from moving out of Portland, and was one of the top 5 blazers of all time - and top 3 in the league in his prime. He played for us until the point where doing so would threaten his ability to walk. It’s not like he just abandoned us after 5 seasons.

but oh no. He doesn’t show up to watch blazer games after his retirement!

ridiculous. Retire his jersey. How is this even a question.

 

[HailBlazers]

God you people are such ingrates!

Roy played injured for us, likely saved the team from moving out of Portland, and was one of the top 5 blazers of all time - and top 3 in the league in his prime. He played for us until the point where doing so would threaten his ability to walk. It’s not like he just abandoned us after 5 seasons.

but oh no. He doesn’t show up to watch blazer games after his retirement!

ridiculous. Retire his jersey. How is this even a question.

Fuck Seattle. That's how.

 

[Darkwebs]

 

[Harry's Raincoat]

I can go either way with this topic.

I would "retire" his #7 because of his ROY season, All-Star seasons, bringing us out of worst W-L record years and his exciting games (Dallas Gm4 playoffs & Game winner over Rockets).

I would NOT "retire" his #7 because his play for the Blazers didn't rise to the level that Drexler & Walton did. In ideal revisionist world, only Drexler and Walton would be retired in Portland's rafters. Many others are worthy of Honorable Mention or Ring of Honor status (Petrie, players from '77 team, Paxson, Thompson, Carr, Porter, Kersey, Duck, Buck, Cliffy, Strickland, Wallace, Pippen, Sabonis, LaMarcus). My two cents.

 

[Mediocre Man]

God you people are such ingrates!

Roy played injured for us, likely saved the team from moving out of Portland, and was one of the top 5 blazers of all time - and top 3 in the league in his prime. He played for us until the point where doing so would threaten his ability to walk. It’s not like he just abandoned us after 5 seasons.

but oh no. He doesn’t show up to watch blazer games after his retirement!

ridiculous. Retire his jersey. How is this even a question.

How is it a question?

1. Only 321 regular season games as a Blazer

2. Never got iut of the first round

3. Averaged 18 mpg

A better question is why should he?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Stupid

 

[Stevenson]

I thought the Timberwolves would retire his jersey! He's attended one Blazer game since he's retired that I've noticed and was offered a job with Portland's organization...he went back to Seattle and coaches high school which is great, but he could have been part of Blazer culture after retirement like Kersey, Duck and Buck were

I think he is pretty persona-non-grata with the organization after that stunt with the T-Wolves.

 

[Blazers1977]

How is it a question?

1. Only 321 regular season games as a Blazer

2. Never got iut of the first round

3. Averaged 18 mpg

A better question is why should he?

Averaged 18 mpg? Wtf are you talking about?

newsflash buddy: the blazers rarely ever get past the first round. You can stop pretending that we’re the Celtics. Roy lost to far better teams, it wasn’t his fault at all. He was the sole reason we even made the playoffs and didn’t move the team to Seattle.

blaming him for having a career ending injury is just sad.

 

[Harry's Raincoat]

Why in favor? His stats are almost identical to Geoff Petrie's and his #45 is hanging in the rafters.

 

[BBert]

I couldn't find "Fuck No" on the list.

Also, I wasn't able to select B, C, and D.

 

[Jon]

he doesn't warrant a retired number. yeah, he was good, but didn't play for very long and didn't contribute a whole lot to our success as a franchise.

also, don't ask Facebook people this question, they are kinda stupid and think he is a god for some reason.

 

[BBert]

Averaged 18 mpg? Wtf are you talking about?

newsflash buddy: the blazers rarely ever get past the first round. You can stop pretending that we’re the Celtics. Roy lost to far better teams, it wasn’t his fault at all. He was the sole reason we even made the playoffs and didn’t move the team to Seattle.

blaming him for having a career ending injury is just sad.

INGRATE!

Roy had bad wheels when he was drafted, and the rims were already coming apart when he used the media to pressure management into giving him that fat contract. Then he fucked us over. I've pretty much forgotten about Brandon Roy the same way he has never given a fuck about any of us.

 

[Jon]

Roy had bad wheels when he was drafted, and the rims were already coming apart when he used the media to pressure management into giving him that fat contract. Then he fucked us over. I've pretty much forgotten about Brandon Roy the same way he has never given a fuck about any of us.

true. if he really cared about any of us, or this organization for that matter, i would think he would be a part of it somehow.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Averaged 18 mpg? Wtf are you talking about?

newsflash buddy: the blazers rarely ever get past the first round. You can stop pretending that we’re the Celtics. Roy lost to far better teams, it wasn’t his fault at all. He was the sole reason we even made the playoffs and didn’t move the team to Seattle.

blaming him for having a career ending injury is just sad.

18 ppg

 

[Mediocre Man]

Averaged 18 mpg? Wtf are you talking about?

newsflash buddy: the blazers rarely ever get past the first round. You can stop pretending that we’re the Celtics. Roy lost to far better teams, it wasn’t his fault at all. He was the sole reason we even made the playoffs and didn’t move the team to Seattle.

blaming him for having a career ending injury is just sad.

No ones blaming him. Let's retire Odens number too.not his fault he only played 82 games.

Bowie?

Roy is 32nd in games played for Portland. Just not enough