I was not a perfect person, not an easy teammate to get along with, and I could not even be considered a good person at all. However, no one in this world could deny that I was the greatest basketball player, not even God!
Exciting, so exciting, Roger and Shaq just wanted to buy a bucket of popcorn and watch their performance.
The Trail Blazers were seemingly cursed from the 90s to the early 00s, with the locker room atmosphere never being good.
In '92 they made it to the finals, but the team was rife with internal conflicts, split into many factions, and there was even an instance where Danny Ainge and Jerome Kersey almost came to blows during the finals.
Then came players like Strickland, who were thorns in the team's side.
Following that was the infamous Portland Jail Blazers era; despite reaching the Western Conference Finals in '99 and '00, the atmosphere within the team was still far from good. The Yelling Maestro throwing a towel directly in Sabonis's face in front of the entire crowd was just one signal, much like you finding your wife hiding sexy lingerie from you—she could well be doing even more outrageous things on the side.