The Schonz is hanging up his microphone
The Trail Blazers’ “Voice of God” has delivered his final sermon.
Buck doesn’t stop at Olshey —At least, he says it doesn’t
Neil Olshey conducts a press conference not so much to inform the media as to educate them.
When the Trail Blazers’ president of basketball operations (general manager) believes the narrative about his team and the job he is doing is off-kilter, he’ll gather the scribes and set them straight.
Olshey has long been president of the Neil Olshey Fan Club, and when membership gets low, he does what he can to drum up the numbers.
That’s what he did during a Monday Zoom conference with local reporters, whose collective wisdom, he is quite sure, fits neatly on the head of a pin. Not only does Olshey not suffer fools gladly, he enjoys delivering a proverbial kick in the tush when he deems it necessary.
I was a guest on Portland's 1080 The Fan’s Dirt and Sprague Show on June 11, 2020
I recently joined Andy "Dirt" Johnson and Brandon Sprague on their daily radio talk show. We discussed the passing of the original Trail Blazer Harry Glickman.
The original Trail Blazer is gone
I’m guessing Harry Glickman stood 5-10, but he was a giant of a man.
Blazer fans recognize him as the gravel-voiced, warm-hearted executive who paved the way toward Portland getting its only franchise in the big four major sports leagues.
Glickman, who died Wednesday at age 96, was the patriarch of the Trail Blazers. But he was much more than that.