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I Dare You Not to Like the Blazers
Posted January 28th ago via True Hoop
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Trust me trust me trust me. Seriously. TRUST me, I KNOW, I blog a lot about the Blazers.

Every now and again the comments are thick with people noticing such things.

In my defense, I can offer:

  • TrueHoop has always been this way. Back when it was an independent blog with about nine readers I was using TrueHoop as a platform for grand-scale Blazer love. And back then Sebastian Telfair was the best story in Blazerland.
  • Small comfort, perhaps, but I blog about Portland way less than I could. (For instance, right now I'm not linking to the assertion here that doubling Brandon Roy like crazy is in the cards. I'm similarly not pointing out that with James Jones, Martell Webster, and Steve Blake hitting wide-open three-pointers, the team welcomes those double teams. And that's why Roy wasn't doubled on some key plays last night, I suspect. So ... that's what I'm not writing today. Whoops.)
  • ESPN's Chris Sheridan, I believe, is not a passionate fan of an NBA team. He's the special exception. Almost everyone else I have ever met working in sports backs some team or another, and I think that's as it should be. Why? Because sports without passion are nothing. Why would anyone dedicate their lives to sports if they weren't passionate about it? You can ask me how it is that I can be so brazenly a Blazer fan. I can ask you why it is that [insert sports journalist's name here] hides his or her fandom. It's good to be impartial. But if you are not impartial, like just about all of us, I think it's good to be honest.
  • The Blazers are as good an NBA story as there is right now, and a lot of what is good about the team has not really even hit the national spotlight yet.
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