Strickland returns to Portland for a stretch run
By Landon Hall
The Associated Press
PORTLAND — Rod Strickland
rejoined the Portland Trail Blazers
Monday, becoming the backup
point guard on a team that has the
best record in the West but felt it
needed another veteran to reach the
NBA Finals.
Strickland, 34, was at Monday’s
closed practice. Afterward, the
Blazers were expected to formally
announce that they had signed
Strickland for $2.25 million, the
amount they have as their mid-lev
el salary-cap exemption.
Strickland, who spent four pro
ductive seasons in Portland from
1992-96, was waived last Thursday
by the Washington Wizards, who
bought out the remaining year-plus
on his contract for $2.5 million. No
one claimed him off waivers, al
lowing any team to sign him. Be
cause he was waived before mid
night Thursday, he is eligible for
the playoffs.
Upon his arrival at the Portland
airport with his family just before
midnight Sunday, Strickland said
he welcomed a chance to play for
one of the league’s top teams.
“It’s a great team from top to bot
tom,” he said. “I’m looking forward
to getting into a winning situation.”
The move brings full circle one of
the worst trades in recent memory:
Strickland sent from Portland along
with Harvey Grant to Washington
for Rasheed Wallace and Mitchell
Butler on July 15,1996. Wallace has
become one of the best power for
wards in the league, while the Wiz
ards are foundering and have only
41/2 turbulent seasons with Strick
land to show for the deal.
Strickland averaged 17 points
and 8.6 assists with the Blazers, but
his final season was marred by a
feud with coach P.J. Carlesimo.
The Wizards and part-owner
Michael Jordan were eager to get rid
of Strickland and his $10 million
salary. He was late for practices,
and was suspended one game earli
er this season for missing a team
flight.
Strickland also has had trouble
with alcohol. He has been charged
with drunken driving three times;
he was acquitted once, but faces a
trial April 3 after being cited Jan. 7.
Strickland never could patch things
up with the demanding Carlesimo,
and the player walked out on the
team for six games in early 1996.
Carlesimo was fired following
the 1996-97 season, after the Blaz
ers were knocked out of the play
offs in the first round for the fifth
year in a row.
The Blazers appeared to be
Strickland’s first choice all along.
He even phoned starting point
guard Damon Stoudamire last
Thursday to make sure it would be
all right if Strickland came to Port
land.
“Me and Rod are good friends,”
said Stoudamire, who was traded
from Toronto to his hometown in
1998. “I don’t want people to think
it’s a stepping-on-my-toes-type ol
deal.”
Pez Sez
continued from page 7
and assistant coaches, and ex
amine the season’s results.
So don’t be surprised if you
pick up another newspaper in
the next few weeks and see a
startling headline about a cer
tain Oregon women’s basket
ball team.
Scott Pesznecker is the assistant sports
editor of the Emerald. He can be
reached at pezsez1@hotmail.com.
Men’s
continued from page 1
Eugene Edgerson said. “It’s because
of them we won’t win the Pac-10
championship. Right now, we are
moving in the right direction. We’re
playing now like we should’ve been
since day one.”
Sophomore sharpshooter
honored
If the Wildcats want to have any
shot of upending the nation’s top
team on its home floor, they must
contain Stanford forward Casey Ja
cobsen, who was honored as Pac
10 Player of the Week.
Jacobsen helped lead his team to
road victories against the L. A.
schools, as he averaged 19 points
and four rebounds over the week
end.
Overheard from McKale Center
Not only did Oregon have to en
dure a 39-point loss to Arizona Sat
urday, but it had to put up with the
relentless McKale Center crowd,
who were enjoying every minute of
the game at the Ducks’ expense.
A select few of the chants and
( i We’re playing now like
we should’ve been since
day one.
Eugene Edgerson
senior
forward
taunts from the Wildcat fans...
After an Oregon time-out and the
score 51-17 in the Arizona’s favor:
“Welcome to the jail, Oregon!”
Then came the “Oregon State
was better” chant, followed up by a
similar, “Let’s go Beavers!” They
then finished with the always pop
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One of the departing shots that
the crowd gave the Ducks as they
walked off the court was, “Don’t
worry Oregon, at least there’s the
NIT.”
Without realizing it, that fan
rubbed even more salt into the ap
parently postseason-less Ducks’
wound.
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