Portland Basketball

Portland Basketball

Guest post from: Winston Stewart

The talk of the preseason has not been so much who is here, but who isn't. Namely, the gaping, crater sized hole left in the key in Portland. That's correct, I am referring to the absence of number 1 overall pick Greg Oden, for the umpteenth time, and by umpteenth I am referring to a number with over seven digits and six zeroes. Zero, of course, is the perfect descriptive noun to use for Greg Oden, as he has rarely ever seen the court. Truly he is a bust of the Dolly Parton variety, and it only makes the pain for Blazers fans worse as Kevin Durant continues to put up Jordan-esque numbers.

It is an interesting comparison, to compare Durant to Jordan, not because there games are similar, but rather because Jordan was also passed up by the Blazers. The rest, as they say, is excruciatingly agonizing history, a history filled with pain and war, and now even in the antebellum period we are not given a reprieve from the day Sam Bowie was drafted. When I watch this team in the preseason, I can only wonder at what might have been, yet I continue to watch as I must be some kind of masochist. I watched the Portland Trailblazers blaze new trails of futility on my satellite TV that I got after looking at this cable tv comparison , and will watch NBA League Pass on the same.