Nobody defended Patterson at the time and you don’t hear anyone defending him now. Even then it was clear if you were paying attention that there were guys like Wallace and Stoudamire who were unhappy here and unhappy getting blasted in the paper every day by two crusty white idiots who didn’t (and don’t) know shit…

Fantastic article Corbin! I know you’ve been working on this for ages and it absolutely paid off. Looking around at all the Wallace jerseys around today pisses me off as someone who got heckled for owning a #30 jersey in 1999. 3/4 of the people who lovingly refer to him as “Roscoe” now days would have been hideous…

yeah he was playing really well, I saw him grab at his leg at some point, then didn’t see him again. Sigh...

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the turning point in this game was Rodney Hood going out. There were at least two Evan Turner “drive into a defender, turn around looking for a bunny, there’s a defender, throw a wild kickout, TO” possessions that wouldn’t have happened with Hood on the floor instead.

giving you a star NOT out of solidarity, but mutual loathing of Idaho

as an Oregonian, get the fuck out of my state!

Portland is neither the rainiest by volume or days of precipitation. It is merely the greyest and dampest.

technically graupel but snow pebbles is lingua franca

yes, we call that “it’s 5:50 and I don’t have the energy to make dinner so I guess it’s takeout but I’m getting fat and if I’m really honest with myself, I don’t care anymore”

As an Oregonian, you missed about 395 different types of rain. Much like the Inuit have 500 words for snow, Oregonians (and to a lesser extent Washingtonians) have 400+ different types of feeling depressed to describe the exact nature of the rain and the grey sky. It’s a cold soaking mist coming from a slate gray…

no, they were victimized and ethnically cleansed by their orthodox neighbors you ignorant fuck

especially because a great deal of them seem only interested in using that money to fund bigoted/misogynistic/reactionary politics

That was one of the greatest, most exciting games I've ever watched and I've never been so happy for something to be over.

This was one of the greatest games I’ve ever watched and the single greatest feat was pulled off by my wife. We’re watching the 3rd overtime from a small town on the coast and we’re out of beer and the only store that sells it is a quarter mile away and closes at 11. At 10:50 with the blazers down 5 with 8 or so…

Gooch-Fant has that ineffable quality of being both extremely fun to say and not obvious.

beats me, I’m not an NBA ref, but I know games don’t have to devolve into blatant shoving under the basket on every possession. I don’t think it was a case of the calls going a certain way, they needed to change the way they were calling the game.

yeah it was infuriating how unevenly the game was officiated. The Nets had something like 18 more FTAs than the Blazers, then the Blazers got a million calls in a row, then they just swallowed their whistles.

This game was utter dogshit and the NBA/Referees should be ashamed for letting it get as bad as it did. They were basically letting the Blazers and Nets fight out there. The two possessions before Nurk’s injury were Jared Dudley falling on teh floor and tripping everybody, leading to nurk getting whacked in the face…

The (only) great high school athletic achievement of mine was successfully pulling a hidden ball-trick from second base. I played 2b and if someone stole second my SS would approach the runner and kindly let him know the umpire had called a foul tip while I mimed throwing the ball around but kept the ball in my glove,…

Kyrie Irving is a less good Dame Lillard without any of Dame’s character or leadership. I am eagerly awaiting him signing with the Knicks and developing beef with KD before the pre-season even ends.