Thanks for the mention on the podcast Bill and Ryen
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and Ryen Rusillo, media personalities and some of the nation’s foremost sports podcasters, made mention of my “Jail Blazers” book on their most recent podcast on June 26, 2023, “Sneaky Sacramento, Free Agency Deal Guesses, and the “One More Time” Draft With Ryen Russillo”.
Larry Brown looks out front window, lands on Memphis Tigers’ bench
Larry Brown is more than a basketball lifer.
Talking All-Star Game to Portland (nope), Geoff Petrie and Jerry West, Gary Payton and Lester Conner, The Kamikaze Kids … and more
Items on my mind during the chilly final days of February …
• Thought for the day provided by Frank “The Flake” Peters, at 78 still a juvenile at heart:
January 2022 Book Reviews
Three-Ring Circus
By Jeff Pearlman
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
As the manuscript was completed for “Three-Ring Circus” in early 2020, author Jeff Pearlman found himself in what some would consider a quandary.
Brian Grant’s autobiographical confessional is worth the read
One of Portland’s favorite sons has come out with his autobiography, and it’s a good one.
Brian Grant’s life story, written with author/sports journalist Ric Bucher, was released April 6 and is in bookstores and available on-line wherever books are sold.
Grant, 49, decided to write the book after a discussion with long-time friend and business associate Brian Berger.
“I was telling stories,” Grant says. “And Brian said, ‘Maybe now is the time to write the book.’ I thought back about my life and decided I’m ready to talk about not just my basketball career but other things — my personal life, getting Parkinson’s Disease, growing up in Ohio, becoming a man in the Northwest.”
Talking Jail Blazers, Jerome Kersey and the NBA with the 3&D Love Podcast crew …
I had fun spending an hour with these Portland natives and obviously diehard Blazer fans. We covered a lot of ground and a lot of NBA history. Give it a listen!
A fond farewell to Herb Brown, the octogenarian Oregonian who has coached the world
Put Herb Brown in among the famous Oregonians who flies under the radar in the world of sports.
The older brother (by 4 1/2 years) of Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer Larry Brown is an accomplished casaba coach in his own right.
Brown, who turns 85 in March, is most well-known for his time spent as head coach of the Detroit Pistons from 1975-77.
But Brown’s resume is replete with stops throughout the world. The native New Yorker has had assistant coaching jobs with eight franchises, including the Trail Blazers. He was a member of Maurice Cheeks’ Portland staff from 2001-03.
Hey Guys! I Was Listening
Seems that Rasheed Wallace and Bonzi Wells used the occasion of a recent interview on “Rip City Drive” to engage a little hit-and-run action on my book, “Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball.”