Marc SteinofESPN.com reportsthat the Portland Trail Blazers might have identified two veteran candidates for their GM position... ------------------------------------ The two names other execs are talking about regarding Portland's search for a new GM are Sacramento's Geoff Petrie and Utah's Kevin O'Connor. But Kings told me Blazers have NOT called for permission to talk to Petrie and Yahoo & The Salt Lake Tribune say Portland has not yet called to talk to O'Connor ------------------------------------ Petrie'sname was raisedin a report all the way back in May but hasn't come up much since. It was reported on Friday thatthe Blazers had interestin O'Connor but hadn't yet pursued him andBrian T. Smithof theSalt Lake Tribune reported herethat there had not yet been any formal contact. -- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter