Lets look back at the Jail Blazers for a sec

[Kliq_Souf]

Damon Stoudamire is the new head coach at Pacific University, so the local radio station in Portland interviewed him yesterday. He said HBO is working on a documentary on the Jailblazers and will have all the key players involved.


I hope it is done right. This is one of my most anticipated stories i wanted covered via documentary or book. It needs to be done right, the behind the scenes stories are too good.

 

[thatrapsfan]

Damon Stoudamire is the new head coach at Pacific University, so the local radio station in Portland interviewed him yesterday. He said HBO is working on a documentary on the Jailblazers and will have all the key players involved.


I hope it is done right. This is one of my most anticipated stories i wanted covered via documentary or book. It needs to be done right, the behind the scenes stories are too good.

Yoo! Can't wait this has legendary potential

 

[thatrapsfan]

These two paragraphs still got me

He eventually storms past me to the shower, and while he’s gone Zach Randolph, a rookie then, leans in to me and says, “When ‘sheed comes back, make sure you don’t have your back to him. He’ll sucker punch you.”

The great irony is that a month later Randolph sucker-punched Ruben Patterson during a practice breaking his eye socket. Someone was holding Patterson’s arms when Randolph threw the haymaker. There was a period of a few days after that incident where Randolph hid out at Dale Davis’ house because he feared that Patterson was going to try and shoot him.”

Who held Kobe Stoppers arms back?

 

[feelosofer]

What makes it worse is that if they weren't such collective fukkups they would've had a ring. Came this close to beating the Lakers in 2000.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Here's a story no one told yet. Late in the Jailblazer era they lost Sabonis, so they picked up this massive 7'4" Serbian dude Nedžad Sinanović to replace him. Then the next year they decided to hedge their bets by adding this massive ass Korean center Ha Seung-Jin. 7'3", easily over 300 pounds.

Both were fukking awful.



So one day during summer in the practice facility, they were working out against each other playing one-on-one and Nedžad was giving Ha that work, apparently. They started jawing, who knows in what fukking language (neither could speak English worth a damn).

In order to wind up they have a free-throw shooting contest, and when he makes his shot Nedžad holds onto the ball too long. Ha gets pissed off and grabs the ball from him. Nedžad says something to set him off, and then they just start whaling on each other.

Fifteen feet and 600 pounds of humanity throwing hands.

Ha gets popped in the face, they both go to the ground still punching/fighting each other, the trainers get up in there trying to break it up without getting killed.


Finally the trainers manage to separate them to opposite sides of the practice facility to cool off. Then it gets better.

Ha goes to "cool off" in the weight room, but grabs one of those long wooden poles they use for stretching and comes out swinging it like a fukking samurai sword and screaming Korean curses while running straight at Nedžad. Nedžad took two shots with the stick before someone else was able to rip it away and throw it across the court.



Then the next day they make up and were cool with each other.


That's the level of fukkkery those Jailblazers were on. Even the no-English-speaking foreigners were all caught up in it.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

This Sabonis story was before he joined the team, but it deserves to be on here too:


"[Sabonis] developed more than a passing relationship with a bottle of vodka, a condition that former SI writer Curry Kirkpatrick memorably labeled as "Stolichnaya elbow." — I heard the same priceless Sabonis/vodka story from both Marciulionis and Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson, who was an assistant coach on the Lithuanian team that won a bronze medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

After the Lithuanians defeated the Unified team for the bronze -- a victory fraught with meaning since the Unifieds represented, to the Lithuanians, the very Soviet empire against which they had fought for their independence -- the closing ceremonies were still hours away. "That's far too much time for a Lithuanian," Nelson told me, smiling.

Sabonis and his teammates ventured back to the Olympic dormitory, where Sabonis challenged fellow Olympians in arm wrestling for shots. One by one, wrestlers and shot putters among them, Sabonis beat them. By the time of the award ceremony, three Lithuanians did not make it to the podium. Sabonis was one of them. “I knew how they used to roll,” said Chris Mullin, part of the United States’ Dream Team. “I think they came out with their tie-dye on. They did what the Deadheads do. They got loosened up. Made use of their free time.”

Sabonis was located a couple of days later in one of the women’s Olympic dormitories.

 

[MVike28]

Recalls sportswriter Jason Quick, who covered Bonzi in Portland: “He would flip off a fan and the next day say, ‘I blacked out.’ He’s such a con man. When the TV lights went on, he’d put on that million-dollar smile, then be an ass when they left.“ He spat, infamously, on Danny Ferry. He bytched constantly at his coaches. He was fined for bad-mouthing his own fans in Sports Illustrated. He made a veiled threat after a reporter wrote a negative story about him. “He told me, ‘Don’t be surprised one day if you show up to practice with a steak over your eye,’ “ Quick remembers. “And I said, ‘If you want to do that, I’ll be a rich man.’ He said, ‘I’m not dumb enough to do it myself. I’ll have my posse do it.’ “


Bonzi shytted on this cac DAILY

 

[Regular_P]

My sister partied with the jailblazers back when she was a teenager. Her close friend worked for Nike and was extremely cute - so Zach and Qyntel kept hitting on her. She got invited to parties and took my sister along with her as backup cause she didn't want to get involved in anything with those guys. I know they partied with Damon, and Scottie was around at least once. I was a huge Portland fan but living in Inglewood at the time - it was utter ridiculousness to know that she was at a party with THAT team of all teams.



Here's a story no one told yet. Late in the Jailblazer era they lost Sabonis, so they picked up this massive 7'4" Serbian dude Nedžad Sinanović to replace him. Then the next year they decided to hedge their bets by adding this massive ass Korean center Ha Seung-Jin. 7'3", easily over 300 pounds.

Both were fukking awful.



So one day during summer in the practice facility, they were working out against each other playing one-on-one and Nedžad was giving Ha that work, apparently. They started jawing, who knows in what fukking language (neither could speak English worth a damn).

In order to wind up they have a free-throw shooting contest, and when he makes his shot Nedžad holds onto the ball too long. Ha gets pissed off and grabs the ball from him. Nedžad says something to set him off, and then they just start whaling on each other.

Fifteen feet and 600 pounds of humanity throwing hands.

Ha gets popped in the face, they both go to the ground still punching/fighting each other, the trainers get up in there trying to break it up without getting killed.


Finally the trainers manage to separate them to opposite sides of the practice facility to cool off. Then it gets better.

Ha goes to "cool off" in the weight room, but grabs one of those long wooden poles they use for stretching and comes out swinging it like a fukking samurai sword and screaming Korean curses while running straight at Nedžad. Nedžad took two shots with the stick before someone else was able to rip it away and throw it across the court.



Then the next day they make up and were cool with each other.


That's the level of fukkkery those Jailblazers were on. Even the no-English-speaking foreigners were all caught up in it.

This is probably my favorite Jailblazers story because of how random it is. One of the reporters who told that story ended it with something like, "even if you didn't come to the Blazers with any fight, the fight soon got in you." Kills me every time.

I cannot wait for this documentary. I hope they get everybody on camera and HONEST interviews from them.

 

[GREENandYELLOW]

My sister partied with the jailblazers back when she was a teenager. Her close friend worked for Nike and was extremely cute - so Zach and Qyntel kept hitting on her. She got invited to parties and took my sister along with her as backup cause she didn't want to get involved in anything with those guys. I know they partied with Damon, and Scottie was around at least once. I was a huge Portland fan but living in Inglewood at the time - it was utter ridiculousness to know that she was at a party with THAT team of all teams.



Here's a story no one told yet. Late in the Jailblazer era they lost Sabonis, so they picked up this massive 7'4" Serbian dude Nedžad Sinanović to replace him. Then the next year they decided to hedge their bets by adding this massive ass Korean center Ha Seung-Jin. 7'3", easily over 300 pounds.

Both were fukking awful.



So one day during summer in the practice facility, they were working out against each other playing one-on-one and Nedžad was giving Ha that work, apparently. They started jawing, who knows in what fukking language (neither could speak English worth a damn).

In order to wind up they have a free-throw shooting contest, and when he makes his shot Nedžad holds onto the ball too long. Ha gets pissed off and grabs the ball from him. Nedžad says something to set him off, and then they just start whaling on each other.

Fifteen feet and 600 pounds of humanity throwing hands.

Ha gets popped in the face, they both go to the ground still punching/fighting each other, the trainers get up in there trying to break it up without getting killed.


Finally the trainers manage to separate them to opposite sides of the practice facility to cool off. Then it gets better.

Ha goes to "cool off" in the weight room, but grabs one of those long wooden poles they use for stretching and comes out swinging it like a fukking samurai sword and screaming Korean curses while running straight at Nedžad. Nedžad took two shots with the stick before someone else was able to rip it away and throw it across the court.



Then the next day they make up and were cool with each other.


That's the level of fukkkery those Jailblazers were on. Even the no-English-speaking foreigners were all caught up in it.

I totally forgot about that one. One of the low key gems.

 

[Saint1]

lmao that nikka had to retire cause he couldnt play away games cause he was a registered sex offender

 

[AlbertPullhoez]

People forget about the Spurs giving them that work in 99 though

 

[VBM]

People forget about the Spurs giving them that work in 99 though

Still don't know how Sheed didn't block that

To be a fly on that wall in that Blazer locker room after that

 

[Whips-n-Chains]

more tales from the hood plz

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

that 30 for 30 in the works

 

[Kane]

Memphis Grizzlies superstar Zach Randolph has been accused of strangling a woman at an L.A. hotel ... though he is adamant her allegations are 100% false.

Here's what we know ... a woman who says she's a model filed a police report with the LAPD on Thursday claiming Randolph "strangled victim causing bruising to her neck."

According to the report, the incident occurred on Wednesday.

Sources connected to the situation tell us the woman claims to have a black eye, multiple bruises on her back, a sprained neck and sore ribs.

We called Randolph's agent Raymond Brothers for comment who told us flat out -- "It's a false police report."

Story developing ...

NBA's Zach Randolph -- Accused of Beating Up Woman ... Strongly Denies Allegations

Jail Blazers still out here puttin in work