突发新闻：开拓者首席营销官Sarah Mensah有been inducted into the Corporate Euphemisms Hall of Fame today by a unanimous vote.
The Hall's voting committee met this weekend and pored over thisabsolutely incredible Press Releaseregarding the team's decision to switch to a variable pricing model for tickets. While the committee was impressed by Mensah's use of at least five talking points or marketing slogans in one sentence ("Our fans have played an instrumental role in our success by selling out the building every night, providing our team with a true home-court advantage and leading the Rip City Uprise back to the NBA Playoffs.")她的几乎立即归纳在以下句子上取决于以下句子，解释了新定价政策的影响。
"For the marquee games, we anticipate prices closer in alignment with market demand."
她的意思是：我们看到了牛皮屑在做什么，喜欢它，并计划在湖人来到城镇时从您身上流血。多么谨慎，狡猾的方式，说球迷应该期望价格上涨。公司委婉语的名人堂几乎对几乎没有阻力this glossy approach incurred.
I'm all for the theoretical logic of variable pricing but let's be a little bit more straightforward about what's going to happen here.
切换齿轮...
I'll pass along thesetwo incredible sentences来自俄勒冈人的Paul Buker和out additional comment.
Fox Sports的边线记者Rebecca Haarlow在周六比赛结束时抓住了Riley，显然认为他正在赢得辛辛那提的教练Brian Kelly。莱利说：“我说我希望自己能成为那个人，但我不是。”
Please attempt to restrain yourselves so that the威拉米特周doesn't put out another hit piece about us.
凯文·佩尔顿（Kevin Pelton）我做到了即时的机翼广播故障of the Juwan Howard signing on Friday.
开拓者组织的特点很大凯利·德威尔（Kelly Dwyer's）十年的前10个崩溃。除了拉希德（Rasheed），萨博尼斯（Sabonis）和毛巾和哈诺维奇（Sinanovic）外，这还在＃2 ...
2.克里斯·米尔斯（Chris Mills
您不会经常听到这个消息，因为克里斯·米尔斯（Chris Mills）和（可能）整个波特兰开拓者名单之间的相互作用背后的细节有点粗略。
Here's what we do know. During a December 20th, 2002 match between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Golden State Warriors, Chris Mills took great offense to the physical play of Bonzi Wells. The entire Golden State crowd, actually, took the same offense to the entire Blazer team, showering Rasheed Wallace (who had to be restrained from going into the stands to fight) with garbage and insults after he hit a game-winner and tried to leave the court.
For Mills, the work of his hometown supporters wasn't enough. He tried to get into the Blazers locker room after the game to have a go at Wells. After being denied access, Mills and some friends decided to park Mills' SUV in front of Portland's team bus, refusing its access to the outside of the arena, with Mills standing outside the bus shouting at the team, spoiling for a fight.
我们确实知道这么多，因为米尔斯几天后因他的举止被停职。我们不知道的是，米尔斯是否可能是武装的，正如某些人建议的那样，或者他是否沿着开拓者的公共汽车驶向机场，然后再转身。
Brian T. Smith引用Nate McMillan关于Martell和Greg。。。
Martell is hungry, he's anxious. He's facing pretty much what Greg Oden was facing a year ago, being out for an entire year and sitting around. And he wants to play and we're looking forward to him being back on the floor and seeing how we can take advantage of what he brings to the floor. Greg, again, understood this summer that he needed to really work on his game and improve and get better and work on some areas with his game. He has done that. Regardless of what happens this season, he has put in the time working on his game. We expect him to have a good year.
More Q's and A's from Coach McMillan谢谢Brian T. Smith。
必须阅读的杰里·克劳of the LA Times about前开拓者勒罗伊·埃利斯（Leroy Ellis）与癌症的战斗。Link viaHoopshype。
凯西·霍尔达尔（Casey Holdahl）介绍Juwan Howard。
“我希望我能有一个巨大的冲击in the locker room." said Howard. "But not only that, I also will hopefully have an impact and presence on the court, as well. I feel I can help this team on the court with my veteran (ability) and experience. I've played in over 1000 games. I've played in a lot of playoff games. That being said, I've been around, I know how to play the game, I still have a lot left in the tank. I feel I can help this team in so many ways"
很高兴听到，但是如果霍华德都能做到的一切都可以反弹，打坚实的防守并时不时地进行公开投篮，那就足够了。目前构造的越野开拓者不需要太多，只是一个精明的球员，经验丰富，可以在需要时混合使用。
Mike Barrett's看布兰登·罗伊。。。
"Nah, I've dropped some pounds," Roy laughs, and admits many people have noticed the new look. "The odd thing is, I didn't play much basketball during the summer months. In fact, it's pretty safe to say I hardly touched a ball."
So, what was the key, and why the change? After all, Roy had never been someone who was considered to be too heavy.
“在赛季结束后花了一点时间休假之后，我像每天一样开始游泳。而且，我真的开始骑自行车。在这样做一段时间后，我踩到了秤，我的体重大约为203磅。我上个赛季大约216岁。我就像“哇”，认为这已经足够了。”
Crazy Saturday in Husky Stadium. Check outthis videoI sent over toSacTown Royaltyof Spencer Hawes and Nate Robinson going bonkers.
Bustabucket.com和a nice recap of EuroBasket。事实证明，鲁迪队获得了冠军。
超越鲍伊有一个新的作家。
As always, drop any links I missed in the comments. And pleasefrequent the FanShots。
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