What Pritchard must've done to deserve this

[Fez Hammersticks]

It's just a weird thought that KP will only be associated with the Blazers for eight more days!

 

[jlprk]

Well let's compare your evidence to mine over whether Pritchard criticized McMillan. Wojnarowski gives quotes from GMs and staff. Also, before the Penn firing, other writers had reported a rift. But your articles (which say Woj is wrong) admit that your articles are just opinion pieces. Actually, you have no articles--they are message board posts. In fact, when your writers try to get quotes from Blazer bosses to refute Woj's articles, all Blazer bosses refuse to contradict his articles. So Woj has quotes and you have none, despite your side's trying very hard to get some. Articles on your side admit they are just speculation. They try hard to get Blazer boss quotes to establish facts in order to launch themselves above mere conjecture, but they fail because obviously, Blazer bosses are saying through their silence that Woj is right. When Pritchard admits his job is up for grabs, he basically endorses the credibility of the Woj articles. Ed O, do you really want to stick to your story that this thing is Woj's invention? I just now checked in a search engine and saw a few like this from before Penn was fired.

There have been reports – though nothing specific – over the past couple years McMillan and Pritchard didn't see eye-to-eye, and that could explain McMillan's surprising comments about just wanting to work off one-year deals after his contract expires at the end of this season. Few understood the reason at the time because it's so counterintuitive. If McMillan really didn't want to work with Pritchard then it explains his decision and comments.

http://www.hoopsworld.com/Story.asp?story_id=15711

Here is Wojnarowski himself, July 11.

Beyond that, Pritchard has a problem with one of the most well-regarded coaches in the NBA: Nate McMillan doesn’t want to sign a contract extension. He’s tried to explain his desire for one-year contracts as some kind of self-motivational tool, but no one buys it. It’s clear that McMillan wants to be a free agent in 2011. “He knows Portland isn’t the last place he’ll be,” a league source said. “Everyone will want him.” Multiple league sources believe there’s a wedge between Pritchard and McMillan, but both general manager and coach have long denied it. Even so, it makes league officials wonder how deeply McMillan believes in his boss’ blueprint that he refuses to commit long-term to it.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-winnerslosers071109

Here is Woj, March 22. By now, many had been writing for a week that Pritchard was in trouble. Woj wasn't at all the first to say so. Even Canzano wrote a long editorial about it March 17.

Inside and outside the organization, Pritchard harped on how much more Portland coach Nate McMillan made than him. He complained to friends, rivals and relative acquaintances, and that played an immense part in the gulf that exists between the front office and coach...Pritchard would go around the NBA, and surprise peers with questions that included, “How much do you make?” before launching into diatribes about how he couldn’t understand why he was so poorly compensated in Portland, especially in comparison to McMillan.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=aw-trailblazers032210

For the sake of history I'll include one more key article, by Maxey, which isn't about McMillan. It was the first to verify message board observations that Pritchard wasn't sitting with Allen anymore.
http://www.beyondthebeat.net/20100426464/2010-articles/april/kevin-pritchards-tunnel-vision.html

In conclusion, I didn't lie or stretch the truth, as Papa says. There are articles which report a rift between Pritchard and McMillan, and there are none (despite great efforts to get Blazer bosses to do so) to back you up. As for Ed O, if you want to claim that most articles disagree with Woj, well, that's not what the rest of us are seeing. All articles agree with Woj that Pritchard is in trouble.

 

[LittleAlex]

8.) KP spent a little too much time talking to one of the ladies Paul Allen brought to a game.

It explains why KP wasn't allowed to sit next to Allen anymore and why he would be fired for seemingly no reason.

9.) KP hit on Paul Allen.

This explains the above as well.

 

[PtldPlatypus]

10) Instead of upgrading to Windows 7, KP made the move from PC to Mac.