Bloggystyle -- The Greatest

Less than a week after Portland forward Darius Miles informed Coach Maurice Cheeks that he will imminently be fired during an argument in a film session, Blazers guard Damon Stoudamire demanded a trade unless he's offered a front office position upon retirement.

Stoudamire's career credentials aren't exactly illustrious.



In February, 2002, cops responded to an alarm at Damon Stoudamire's house. They didn't find a burglar, but they did find a large bag of marijuana.

Months later, Damon Stoudamire and Rasheed Wallace were cited for misdemeanor marijuana possession when a cop stopped the car they were travelling in and smelled marijuana.

Finally, in July, 2003, Stoudamire was arrested for possession after trying to get weed through a Phoenix airport.

As Stoudamire stepped through the metal detector, an alarm immediately sounded...McNew asked Stoudamire if he had anything metal in his pants pocket. Stoudamire said he did not.

As McNew prepared to scan him one more time, Stoudamire wiggled his leg. An eight-inch-long piece of thickly wrapped aluminum foil fell out of Stoudamire's pant leg.

Minutes later, police officers Michael Losada and Keith Kramer arrived. Kramer observed the aluminum foil package and the rolling papers inside a gray plastic bin beside Stoudamire.

"What's inside?" Kramer asked, examining the foil wrap.

"You know what it is," Stoudamire said.

Then again, when your teammates are Ruben Patterson, who assaulted his wife 2 years after trying to rape his children's nanny, or Zach Randolph, who punched Patterson in a practice in 2003 and broke his eye socket, you do begin to look like a model citizen.


"Today I didn't even have to use my AK."