Kevin Duckworth

But my bold prediction is that Deni Avdija becomes a multi-time All-Star, joining in a small group for the Trail Blazers.

He would just be the 13th Trail Blazer ever to be a multi-time All-Star, and even making consecutive All-Star games would put him on a, a, a slightly shorter list because of the way that Kevin Duckworth's, uh, selections went down, uh, back in the day.

So, like, th- this would put him, you know, in the, in a, in a short list of one of the Blazers' best players in a very short amount of time.

That's a bold prediction based on its historical precedence.

Don't even tempt me with a good time talking about the 90s trailblazers.

Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, Kevin Duckworth, Jerome Kersey.

The

rest.

Oh, yeah.

But you've also got the Terry Porter, Clyde Drexler, Kevin Duckworth, Jerome Kersey.

A team so loaded in 1990 that they had Drazen Petrovic on the bench and didn't play him.

I think it'd be a tragedy for the NBA if the Trailblazers leave Portland.

We can run, I mean, there's just a history of guys, right? There's really, the really, the late Michael Sweeney's super heavy.

Late Kevin Duckworth was super heavy.

Oliver Miller.

But even just these other guys like Eddie Curry was 300 plus pounds, just struggled.

It used to happen a lot back in, like, the earlier stages of this award.

Gilbert Arenas, Kevin Johnson, I think Kevin Duckworth.

There's a couple other guys that won in their second year, but it's been a long time.

I mean, it's like I, I am on board saying like, "Come on," especially if you won Rookie of the Year.

And I always talk about that too, by the way.

I go, how different with this team? And God rest his soul, Kevin Duckworth, he was the starting center for the 92 Blazers.

I always think back, I'm like, if Arvidas, because they drafted Arvidas in 86, he should have been in Portland by then.

He came later.