I should be 10 dollars richer by now. “5 bucks the Blazers drop this one,” my text flashed to two other Portland media row writers about three minutes into the Blazers versus the Philadelphia 76ers game.
No takers.
We all agreed Portland had plenty of chances to win though. Even after the overtime results, no one could [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Nate McMillan’
Welcome To Playoff Basketball….
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Nate McMillan on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“The Kid” Is Back In Town
Posted in baseball, basketball, tagged Jr., Ken Griffey, Nate McMillan on February 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Spring training got under way this week, and that can only mean one thing: the return of Ken Griffey, Jr. to the Seattle Mariners. And while Nate McMillan is busy preparing the Portland Trail Blazers for a postseason push, “Mr. Sonic” knows all about “The Kid”.
“I’m happy to see him go back to Seattle,” McMillan [...]
Gone Mental….
Posted in basketball, home game, tagged Brandon Roy, Nate McMillan on February 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The NBA All-Star weekend is nearly upon us, but I’m getting the feeling the Portland Trail Blazers – with still two more games before the break against Oklahoma City and Golden State – have taken their leave a bit early.
Mentally, they are already on vacation.
If Sunday’s near loss to the New York Knicks said [...]
The Show Must Go On….
Posted in writing, tagged Brandon Roy, Jamaal Tinsley, Nate McMillan on December 22, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I’m not sure when it hit me. Could have been when I was digging around the snow drift to my car. Or maybe as I was chaining up, eager to break the family bout of cabin fever with a trip to Target. Then I got the text message– that’s when I knew.
The show must go [...]
Inside The Waive
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Kevin Pritchard, Nate McMillan, P.J. Brown, Robert Horry, Shavlik Randolph on December 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was a shady situation. After a year selling used cars in my early twenties, my sales numbers slipped. And in the car biz you are only as good as your last deal. So I was “let go”; fired; given my walking papers. But in the NBA it’s different. Guys get “waived” all the time [...]
Let The Oden-Howard Talk Begin….Again
Posted in basketball, home game, tagged Dwight Howard, Greg Oden, Nate McMillan on December 9, 2008 | 12 Comments »
Greg Oden as Dwight Howard: Nate McMillan went there before.Will he go there again?
After spending the past three summers with Howard on Team USA, McMillan knows Dwight’s game intimately. But can Oden transform himself into that kind of player?
Last year when Orlando rolled into town, McMillan said he (and the organization) envisioned Oden being Dwight [...]
A Minute On McMillan….
Posted in basketball, writing, tagged George Karl, Jerry "Ice" Reynolds, Larry Brown, Nate McMillan on December 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Seattle SuperSonics versus the Chicago Bulls, 1996 NBA Finals. Those VCR tapes of the games I recorded were played out. My poor Quasar begged for mercy. Must have watched them weekly during the following offseason, with a gimpy Nate McMillan giving Seattle an emotional lift in Game 4 with a Sonics win.
All these years later – [...]
Welcome Back Webster….
Posted in away game, basketball, writing, tagged Ike Diogu, Joel Przybilla, LaMarcus Aldridge, Martell Webster, Nate McMillan on December 7, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Change is a good thing. And on Sunday afternoon in Toronto the Portland Trail Blazers will begin to dabble in some minor alterations. Not only is Martell Webster suiting-up for the first time this season, but his return to action also creates a ripple effect throughout the rest of the roster.
I addressed this recently at HOOPSWORLD [...]
Growing With Greg
Posted in away game, basketball, tagged Brandon Roy, Greg Oden, Joel Przybilla, Nate McMillan on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While Nate McMillan was busy giving referee Joe DeRosa the business, his young Blazers were two minutes away from another growth spurt.
On a night that saw Brandon Roy’s late game heroics continue, Greg Oden flash promise and Portland take care of the Washington Wizards on the end of a back-to-back, it’s clear the second youngest [...]
Not Done Yet….
Posted in writing, tagged Brandon Roy, Eric Musselman, Greg Oden, Nate McMillan on December 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Two years is a long time to be out of work. That’s one of the first things that crossed my mind as I pitched a story to my editor recently about Eric Musselman, the former head coach of the Golden State Warriors and Sacramento Kings.
The story was quickly approved. The interview was pretty interesting on [...]
