The Portland Trail Blazers and Golden State Warriors are beginning to see many similar parallels. Both teams continue to lose players to injury, and once-high expectations have simmered down into the cold reality of what the season has become. In light of the new developments, I have written a letter on behalf of the Portland Trail Blazer franchise to the Golden State Warriors fan base in hopes of fixing a deteriorated relationship. Golden State, in attempt to help foster this relationship, also wrote a letter to Portland fans.
Dear Golden State Warrior Fans,
We know we haven’t been the most welcoming fans to your franchise. Let’s be honest: we just don’t like you, and we’ve never taken you seriously.
You constantly try to claim you’re a good NBA team. You’re not. You think winning one playoff series as an 8-seed two years ago is enough to legitimize your ability to be a worthy team. It’s not. And you somehow think that, because you play in the same state as the Lakers, we should view you as some sort of underdog and root for you to win. Well, we don’t. We like watching you lose. Your management is terrible. And to be completely honest, we find your mascot to be the most ridiculous, outlandish, hideous creature to ever walk into an NBA arena. You deserve everything bad that comes your way.
But then again, you knew all of this.
Regrettably, we have only now begun to feel the pain that your franchise has experienced over the years. We just lost the “future” of our franchise for the season… again. Greg Oden continues to look more and more like a mistake. Did you know Kevin Durant is third in the entire NBA in scoring?
Our best player off the bench, Travis Outlaw, is out until at least March. Nicolas Batum, our starting SF, is out until at least February. That leaves us with one small forward.
Two of our rookies, Jeff Pendergraph and Patty Mills, are both injured. LaMarcus Alrdidge still isn’t completely healthy. Rudy Fernandez just had to get another MRI, and was just supposed be out for at least a couple more games. Instead, he will undergo surgery and miss 6-12 weeks. That reminds us, our head coach is also out for our current 4-game road trip. Nate McMillan ruptured his Achilles because he had to take part in the practice drills thanks to so many injured players who couldn’t practice.
Did we mention Greg Oden’s out for the year? We just can’t get over this. And frankly, we’re getting increasingly tired of defending him.
Our front office is considering trading Jerryd Bayless, who has been banished to the third string point guard position, behind Steve Blake and Andre Miller. This shouldn't even be a PG dilemma. What, you ask, is our management thinking? We couldn’t tell you.
So I suppose what we’re trying to tell you is that… we understand. We get it. You have ten different players that are either out for the season, out right now, or have missed considerable time to this point in the season. We’re in the same boat.
So as much as we hate to admit it, and as much as we don’t want to be put in the same sentence with you, we are now together in what’s becoming the NBA season from hell. And… we’re… sorry.
You don’t deserve everything bad that comes your way, and neither do we.
We are sorry for making fun of you. We are sorry for making a mockery of your players, coaches, management, and even your monstrosity of a mascot. We now know what it’s like.
Sincerely,
Jesse Price (on behalf of all Blazer fans)
To view a letter written to the Blazers from the Golden State Warriors: Click here.
Comments
But, really, the parallels are not on point. My lowley warriors have seen a fraction of the wins as the blazers have in the past decade. Also, your team knows how to draft much better, yeah, not so accurate. Your managment is by far superior to ours, but then again a costco manager can run the warriors better then these clowns.
A healthy warriors lineup would kill your healthy lineup.
I feel like you missed the point. If you read the whole letter, the guy makes it clear that all the misconceptions he notes in the first paragraph really aren't true. and he comes to admit that. that's his point. after all the injuries and bad things that have been happening to POR lately, he is enlightened to how it feels to have bad things happen to your favorite team. so he's not bashing the warriors. he's doing the opposite. read the whole letter; not just the first paragraph
When you wrote this? I hope so. Go Blazers, Go Warriors!
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