Jun 30 2009
Au Revoir, Channing
Two sad goodbyes in less than a week. Both players were a miniscule measure above entirely useless to the team right now, but they had their own charms. While Sergio’s were entirely on-court, Channing represented everything that was great about this team and did it proudly. By the end, he not only represented the Blazers to Portland, but Portland for the Blazers (if that makes sense). We’ve all heard the stories of sightings of Channing out at brewpubs and various art Thursdays. He took to all the great parts of Portland, and wanted all of us to join in with him. Too bad his skill set on the court didn’t include defense or rebounding.
He was replaced by some draft picks that hopefully have those skills, but it will be impossible to replace the value he had to the city of Portland. To this day, I still take shorter showers and carpool with a buddy because of Channing.
If there’s one guy who absolutely deserves success and deserves to destroy us on another team, it’s Channing. He needs to drop like 40 on LaMarcus and have us all questioning KP and demanding Nate’s head. He’s earned it.
