With Root’s Brad Adam, talking “Jerome Kersey: Overcoming the Odds” …
Once upon a time, Brad Adam was a Portland sportscaster.
For 21 years, Adam has been one of the staples at Root Sports in Seattle. Northwest sports fans know him as the go-to guy talking Mariners and, now, the NHL Kraken. Before that, though, he spent three glorious years working his elocutionary magic at KATU. So we go a ways back.
With Neil Everett and Dewayne Hankins, talking Blazer broadcasting for 2021-22
Summing up the Blazer broadcasting scene for the upcoming season — and there are plenty of changes …
• Neil Everett sounded like a kid in a candy store when I caught up with him via phone while he was at his vacation cottage in Seaside.
“I just found a vintage Trail Blazers jacket at an antique store in town,” Everett told me. “I don’t know what year it’s from, but it has to be 30 to 40 years old and it looks like it’s never been worn. I’m so fired up.”
Everett paid $300 for the jacket.