Good news for Portland Trail Blazers coach

It’s unlikely that the last Trail Blazers squad to seriously challenge for an NBA championship would reunite in Portland.

Damon Stoudamire told me last week that most of the players who were on those teams didn’t really feel connected to Portland since everyone thought they were just trying to erase our history.

That past?

You are aware of its complexity. a run of winning seasons set against the backdrop of wrongdoings off the court. It seems like the Blazers have never really known what to do with that.

It’s evident that Stoudamire, who attended what is now Ida B. Wells High School and grew up in Northeast Portland, still finds it bothersome that he is the most influential native Blazer in the team’s history.

But you might want to stick around Georgia Tech basketball if you want to see the Blazers from the early 2000s reunited.

Stoudamire was brought on as the head coach of the Yellow Jackets last spring. And it evolved into a get-together.

“Bonzi Wells works for me,” Stoudamire said.

Additionally, Wallace says, “Rasheed comes to a lot of my practices.”

Additionally, “Steve Smith attends our games.”

Greg Anthony, an Atlanta-based employee of Turner Sports, is also present.

If you’re keeping score, it means that on any given day, you could find three starters and two important reserves from the 2000 squad and the historic Game 7 loss against the Lakers in the same gym.

We all still dangle,” stated Stoudamire. “That Portland group has remained cohesive throughout.”

Previously, Wells was a coach at Tennessee’s Division II LeMoyne-Owen College. Wallace also travels from his North Carolina home to Atlanta.

The perception of the 2000 Blazers and their problems has gotten softer with time. The drug marijuana was a part of Stoudamire’s offences, but it is now lawful. Recently, Wallace has discussed a number of topics connected to his time with the Blazers, including the behind-the-scenes account of Zach Randolph punching Ruben Patterson. In a brief documentary they narrated last year, Wallace and Wells bemoaned the time period during which they were treated unfairly in Portland.

“Some of that stuff, we brought on ourselves,” Stoudamire remarked. A portion of it was justified. We won’t sit here and pretend that some of it wasn’t justified, but the overreaction to the situation stemming from everyone’s desire for us to emulate the former Blazer teams wasn’t representative of who we were.