MY BLAZERS

Go Portland!

Portland got smashed! Yao didn't miss a shot! Damn!

I still want Portland to win, though

This was a surprise and a disappointment.

I need to find a new team to adopt.

Well, I suppose I still have "whomever is playing the Spurs" as MY TEAM.

I still don't get Houstons success.

This was a surprise and a disappointment.

I need to find a new team to adopt.

Well, I suppose I still have "whomever is playing the Spurs" as MY TEAM.

That won't last long.

I still don't get Houstons success.

Adleman is a good coach.

^ I was talking to my Kings fan buddy this am and thats what he kept saying. Sac hasn't been the same since.

Mutmbo done with basketball

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP)—Houston Rockets center Dikembe Mutombo said his lengthy career is finished after a knee injury knocked him out of the Rockets’ playoff game Tuesday night against the Trail Blazers.

“For me, basketball is over,” he said.

Mutombo, an 18-year NBA veteran, appeared to get tangled with Portland center Greg Oden and came down hard on his left leg late in the first quarter of Game 2 and did not return.

He stayed prone on the court under the Blazers’ basket for several moments before he was taken away by stretcher. A preliminary examination revealed a knee strain.

Afterward in Houston’s locker room, the 7-foot-2 veteran was on crutches and fighting back tears.

“Nobody ever thought they’d be carrying the big guy out like a wounded soldier,” he said.

Mutombo, the league’s oldest player at 42, will be examined by doctors in Houston on Wednesday.

“Dikembe is one of the statesmen of this league,” teammate Shane Battier said. “There’s not a better guy. To see him in pain is tough to see. He cares so much about this game that he doesn’t want to end his career like that. That’s the tragedy of it, too.”

Mutombo is an eight-time All-Star who won the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year award four times and stands in second on the NBA’s career blocks list with 3,289. He has played for Denver, Atlanta, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and Houston.

In 1,196 career games, Mutombo has averaged 9.8 points, 10.3 rebounds and 2.7 blocks.

Moreover, Mutombo is know for his humanitarian work. He founded the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation in 1997 to benefit the people of his homeland of Kinshasha in the Congo. In 2007, he opened the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and Research Center there, named after his mother.

The Rockets re-signed Mutombo in December after he played in 39 games with the team the previous season. He was a free agent and had considered retirement.

He played in nine regular-season games with the Rockets, averaging 1.8 points, 3.7 rebounds and 1.22 blocks.

Mutombo played 18 minutes in Game 1 of the series and had nine rebounds. The Rockets won the opener, 108-81, before the Blazers evened the series with a 107-103 victory on Tuesday.

“I’ve had a wonderful 18 years of staying injury-free, so I just want to go out with my head up, no regrets,” he said.

He does love to be dramatic, doesn't he? Perfect ending, I suppose.

My man B. Roy went off!

Way 2 Go B, Way 2 Go!

Portland Rocks, Cleveland Sucks, Portland Rocks, Cleveland Sucks

Scola looked really good last night.

The Rockets interior D is really good.

The Blazers looked scared to even try and get into the paint.

What's wrong with YOUR Blazers GD?

They looked scared?

They have nothing to fear - too young to know better should be the excuse

I'm not completely sure but I think MY Rockets might win this series.

Waffer and Battier are the guys I've been tellin y'all about.

Aaron Brooks is better than Rodney Stuckey, FWIW.

Too quick of a shot on the 3. Still had 4.8 left.

Brooks will ice it now.

LOL@Ron-Ron


The Rockets had just lost Game 2 of this series with the Portland Trail Blazers when Ron Artest went around the locker room challenging his teammates.

“You guys don’t understand what it takes to win a championship,” he said at one point.

He was loud and he was angry and he made plenty of good points. That night in Portland, the Rockets became careless and blew a chance to win a playoff game.

Never mind that Brent Barry won two NBA championships with the San Antonio Spurs or that Luis Scola has an Olympic gold medal or that Shane Battier won a national championship at Duke.

Never mind that when the game was on the line that night, a lot of people made mistakes.

Including Artest.

He went 8-of-20 from the field, including 1-of-8 from 3-point range. He got to the foul line just twice.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/6400211.html

Aaron Brooks is better than Rodney Stuckey, FWIW.

I remember saying we should have drafted Brooks in the second round that year BTW.

Sad to see my Blazers lose but we'll be back next year. Roy and Aldridge have been playing great this postseason and they'll only be better next year. Martell Webster returns next season from injury. Travis Outlaw, Steve Blake, and Sergio Rodriguez are probably gone this summer.