Reply #13: Ah, the Shawn Kemp deal.

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One of the many boneheaded mistakes -- like trading
Brian Grant instead of Rasheed Wallace, or signing
problem child Isiaih Rider.

Then they'd take green kids and bring them into a locker
room full of thugs and criminals and wonder why they
start acting like thugs and criminals.

I think that's why Jermaine O'Neal wanted out of here
so bad.

The litany is endless, and your analogy is perfect.
The Blazers were beloved in this town before Whitsitt got
ahold of them, and now even with that pretty stadium and a
really creative marketing campaign it's still not enough.

And now it seems like they've split up the homer-homey clown
show. I used to watch the games on TV so I wouldn't have to
suffer the punishment of Wheeler and Rice, and now all of a
sudden that idjit Rice is on the television. I was like aw
shit now I can't listen to the games at all.