Portland really fell upstairs on this one. Last year they basically traded Telfair for Brandon Roy. Now they've got young guys like Roy, Aldridge, and Webster to go along with Oden. Add Zebo in and you've got a fearsome front line, although from what I've been reading they're likely to trade him and Miles out to remove the last bit of the "Jail Blazers." But Zebo is a stud player, and good enough to bring in a guy like Billups, R. Lewis, etc.

I haven't really cared about the NBA since the great Blazers team from the late 80s early 90s was disbanded, when I was basically a kid, but I'm getting that same old feeling again.

Rip City is back!