Reporter asks Ja Morant: “Were you offered #12 (jersey)?”
Ja Morant: “Uh yeah, at first, but then, you know, with talks through, the org had other plans for it, so I honored it.”
This must mean Aldridge getting his number retired sooner or later
I’m shocked Dundon will pay for the cables to hoist the jersey up there. Maybe he will stick it in a T-shirt cannon with some gorilla glue and shoot it at the ceiling to save money.
Maybe he’s retiring Caden’s #12?
It’s gonna be like that time Kenny got his jersey retired on Inside the NBA.
https://youtu.be/G1ZMviEik3U?is=pbxgeBPtw9N4cwKy
For those who haven’t seen the clip (I haven’t)
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 and these dorks tried to tell me Amazon prime coverage is better than ITN lmaoo
Nothing beats inside the nba for comedy but I like Amazon for their breakdowns
This was 20 years ago. Before dumbass Shaq spoiled the vibe and Chuck got old and cranky.
Lol let’s see the guy actually pay for it first
It’s just gonna be a guy holding his jersey up, he goes up a ladder and at the end of the ceremony comes down and just walks off with it (Aldridge will get charged for the jersey but Dundon will give him a 10% discount).
They had to convince him they found a vendor in Shenzhen to make the banner at 1/10th of the cost
Bold of you to assume he’s willing to even buy the jersey to hang.
Gorilla Glue is a stretch. Elmer’s at best.
This made me spit out some water laughing 🤣
You think he’s got gorilla glue money? He’s using expired Crazee Gloo he got at Dollar Tree
Dundon is actually retiring his sons number 12 AAU jersey
He might be the first owner to get a player retirement banner sponsored & slap a giant brand on it.
If it happens to get stuck onto a fan instead, it happens
Which is stupid. He was really good, but what are we doing
Slipping on slippery slope, of devaluing retiring a number
Portland retired Larry Steele’s number.
Look at Larry Steele career numbers
Who?
Title winning small forward.
Watch your mouth, that’s the man of steal you are talking about
whos talking about shaq?
The fact that we have so many retired jerseys is the whole reason we’re so squeamish about retiring jerseys.
Portland has a bunch of retired numbers in the rafters of guys that most people haven’t heard of, just because they retired the numbers of like 7 guys that were on the championship team in ‘77
Not to mention:
14-Lionel Hollins 30-Bob Gross 36-Lloyd Neal 13-Dave Twardzik
Only Hollins ever made an All Star team (once) and none of those players averaged over 12 ppg for their careers.
This is the problem with all of these, though none of it matters at the same time. Doing this would be a mistake, but yeah we’ve made bigger mistakes so do it.
You mean nba champ Larry Steele?
Teams kinda do what they want with these honestly
Raptors retired Vince’s number and half the fanbase hates him STILL! lol
Vince Carter was the face of basketball for the entire country pretty much
Vince is the reason there are so many awesome Canadian players today. You don’t get shai, you don’t get RJ, Dort, or really any of that generation of talent if Vince didn’t make basketball cooler than hockey for all of those families.
The way he left sucks, but he legitimately made Canada basketball what it is. He absolutely deserved to have his jersey retired
Retired numbers are utterly meaningless, the Heat retired Jordan’s jersey.
Yeah but the Heat are actually dumb for doing that
Pat did this in an effort to get the league to retire 23 league-wide, it obviously didn’t go through but that was the thought process.
Which again, is stupid. Pat really thought he was the czar of jersey retirements?
It was right after the NHL retired 99 league wide for Gretzky
I’m closer to Jordan in Basketball than any NHL player ever is to Gretzky
Nah, Ovechkin is at least half Gretzky. You are not half of Jordan.
No way. Everyone in the league is closer to Gretzky than you’ll ever be to Jordan.
Superstars would be superstars in any era.
You have no way of knowing whether or not I’m Kevin Durant.
Pat probably did it as a way of recruiting stars.
“Look how much we respect legends in the NBA! We retire players jerseys that never even played for us!!”
I do remember LeBron on the Cavs agreeing that it was cool the Heat did that, so maybe there’s something to it. If anything it gave them something to talk about before he signed
Eh, he abhorred the idea of every shooting guard trying to imitate Jordan and wear 23. He retired it to avoid having to give the same stupid speech every time.
I’m not saying I agree with it, just giving context.
Mavs retired 24 for Kobe until they undid it last year and retired it for mark aguirre
Riley chose to honor Jordan simply as a tribute to his historic greatness, making him the first player in NBA history to have his number retired by a franchise he never played for.
It’s not meaningless when you respect your peers, which you aren’t part of nor understand what being a part of it means.
That’s still stupid even if you like how pat Riley tastes
You’re fkin bottom of the barrel G, not worth even this response
But you responded, so you’re clearly not a top G either.
He still a competitor from the same conference that cooked them for years. They could have just done a tribute video or something if he cared that much about MJ
The game is far more than winning losing. Greatness is invaluable
I guess. Me personally if a guy was 40-9 against me I would appreciate it sure, but I wouldn’t use the highest honor of my organization to glaze him lol
It’s Michael Jordan man, there won’t be another one, and nobody is gonna be Air Jordan ever again. If you don’t like that then clean out your shoe closet.
I’m going to edit this and say this might be a bad year for people to try and talk about the Bulls in any aspect as we just lost one of the greatest play by play commenters in sports history, so we’re all a little spicy right now.
insane glaze
This guy really thinks hes better then other people 🙄 😆
Oh no not devaluing retired numbers.
wont somebody please pay attention to the growing crises of number availability
I thought it was cool when my favorite player got their number retired. Then I remembered Lamarcus Aldridge had his number retired and I changed my mind.
I like to imagine any team doing this ending up like the blernsball team in Futurama where all the whole numbers are retired and they’re all wearing fractions
I know that the Bears no longer retire numbers so that they don’t run out. Not as funny though
No you’re the stupid one
He’s top 5 in every way for the Blazers, played over 600 games for them, averaged 20 points for them over that period, made multiple all star, all NBA, played in multiple playoffs
Nick Collison has his jersey retired. It’s not only a skill thing.
Collison played his entire 15 year career with Seattle/OKC. That at least means something. Aldridge played 9 years with the Blazers and had no tangible impact on their team history.
dude averaged 6 and 5 lmao who cares how many seasons he played with the franchise
Aldridge was a beast in Portland
Franchises don’t operate in a uniform system of honoring players, since the NBA doesn’t operate a system where franchises are equally able to acquire talent that people like you think are “deserving” of jersey retirement.
Up to Blazers fans to determine if it is stupid or not.
Blazers fan here:
Lamarcus was was great in his time here but when he left in free agency it felt like a stab in the back. I think about what we could have had with him and Dame….
Fantastic player and terrible that his heart condition cut his career short. Not sure he needs his number retired here though 🤔
it’s not like they have a lot of great players in their history, he’s one of the best they’ve had
it’s unfortunate, but realistic
And with that cheap bastard Dundon running the show, sadly they’re unlikely to get anyone else worth Jersey retirement until he’s gone. Excluding Dame obviously.
Who cares what they value for something has no effect on anyone’s life anywhere ever?
It’s always been a sentimental thing, meaning an org can do it for whatever, beyond just “he’s a hall of famer and played here for some time”. What’s actually stupid, in my opinion, is when people try to act like their world has been torn asunder because the sanctity of jersey retirements has been ruined when a player they don’t value gets honored. You don’t have to be this generational 1 of 1 player to be celebrated.
Orlando retired Shaq’s jersey which is ridiculous
How does he get his number retired before Brandon Roy? Roy sacrificed his knee and career (and probably future well-being) to help the team try to advance in the playoffs
Because it’s just a number? And.. who the fuck cares?
Nah he found some old adidas Aldridge Jerseys in the back time to dust them off and sell them as “throwback”
I mean I guess that’s what everyone’s saying but I don’t see it.
But I have no other plausible explanation.
Honestly brother I’m not a blazers fan but looking up the people that wore 12..he’s the only one that really did work wearing the number 12 all others were just short stints so at this point it’s jus like putting two and two together
Gotta be for Detlef Schrempf, or Fat Lever lol
😂😂😂 right
For fuck
He really liked the left side of the court:
https://i.imgur.com/etFc4Ic.png
Other plans?
Blazers might be planning on retiring 12 for Lamarcus Aldridge
I’m feeling rather cynical about their reasons. I think LMA’s done enough for them to retire it, but I feel like the owner would only do it so they can milk it by making it an event to bump up ticket prices and merchandise sales.
Incoming Nicolas Batum #88 jersey retirement two years from now
lol what a joke
Idk why
Edit: funny I’m getting downvoted. Aldridge was a good player nothing special. Didn’t lead the Blazers to a damn thing. Not a single first team all nba. I guess we just have higher standards for jerseys in Lakerland.
For the Portlandia cameos
No shit you do? It’s as if you’re the fucking Lakers or something? It’s honestly astonishing how little your fanbase has self awareness.
Our jerseys in the rafters are nba greats. Is Aldridge an nba great?
And yet you still don’t get what he’s saying lol
What’s he’s saying? Blazers are ass so they have to settle for this?
Holy shit lakers fans are truly the absolute worst
No one has given me a single reason why his jersey should be retired.
LeBron wears 12 for the Blazers
Keep cooking chef
LMA will get that retired
Gonna use it to wash windows
Nikola might come back
Dwight Howard. You haven’t seen his insta?
Gotta honor blazer legend Sergei Monia
Low key rooting for the Grizz and couldn’t be happier watching this idiot expose himself
For the record, and not just because of my flair, hanging the jersey in the rafters should be more common, retiring the number from use, much less. Wearing the number of a former great is just honoring them.
I love Michael Irvin’s take on this. He wants his jersey number worn because his legacy is sealed.. bad play and people say “Irvin never would have dropped that” and when they make a good play it’s “just like Irvin”
Three PGs are 00, 0, and 1. My OCD ass loves it.
Is 00 > or < 0? It’s _more_ zero but it’s also more zeroes.
00 is technically 100 if I remember correctly
its equal lol
My least favorite Roulette numbers
LMA retirement this season?
Or they don’t want Ja being associated with 12 which is associated with the police in street/hip hop culture lol
Bruh what. Lol what a dumb comment
it ain’t that deep lol, they’re retiring Aldridge and Roy.
😂😂😂 pants on head
This is definitely it 😭😭😭
In no world should LMA get his jersey retired in Portland
Yeah like what are we doing?
ignore my flair pls (or don’t, I don’t think MJ should have his 23 retired in Miami).
MJ has his jersey retired in Miami? How’s that happen?
Pat Riley basically said MJ is such a historic figure that 23 should be retired by all teams (kind of like Russell’s 6 is now). “It was my idea and a gesture to honor Jordan’s profound effect on the game of basketball and his global impact on fans.”
Would have been a good idea, unfortunately 28 other teams said bitch you crazy, hell nah.
6 being retired by everybody is also bullshit
Kinda have to agree
Nice gesture I guess. Better to let new players wear the number to honor the guy though.
Pat was trying to get every team to retire the number
LMA is getting retired sooner or later
Deservedly so
Unpopular opinion based on the other comments lol
I think people are confusing hall of famers with franchise greats.
Aldridge was fantastic for them, year in, year out.
And its the NBA. He might be a HOFer anyway (7x all-star, 5x all-nba)
7 All Star games is basically a guarantee. Of the retired guys with 7 or more only LMA, Joe Johnson, and Larry Foust aren’t in. Even if you move the mark down to 6 it’s just Shawn Kemp, Jermaine O’Neal and Larry Costello.
There’s basically no way that Aldridge is left out.
Yeah hes a HOFer to me for sure, i shouldnt have been so cautious with my wording haha. He was one of my favorites too
Was LMA that good in Portland? Started watching ball just after he left, wasn’t aware he had the impact to retire the number. Portland retire anyone else or he first?
Lamarcus Aldridge baseline jumper was absolute cash. One of the best midrange players, especially as a big, in the 2010s.
You could count on him for an easy 20 nightly. The 2010s Blazers fell short in the playoffs for one reason or another, but not really ever because Aldridge didn’t come through (rip Brandon Roy)
They retired like, half of the championship team.
Nike really got Ja shipped to Portland to protect their investment lol
shoutout Lamarcus Aldridge
Really hope it works out for him in Portland…
Makes sense to retire it for LA, new owner needs a cheap way to buy goodwill
Retire Roy’s at least he didn’t leave the first chance he got lol. City has fond memories of LMA but there’s no love there.
LMA left Portland the first chance he could get? Bro, he played there for 9 seasons before he signed with San Antonio in free agency in 2015. It was his age 30 season and Portland was not committed to signing an aging big man to a long term deal.
Rookie scale (pdx)-> RFA contract(pdx) -> UFA contract (SAS) Yeah, first time he could leave he did.
I wish from the beginning of time the starters just wore 1-5 and bench 6-12 or whatever in some sort of logical order
Why and there’s so many problems with that
We call the positions 1-5 anyway. Why not wear that number. What are the problems? Refs can signal 9 with 2 hands cos no one’s gonna be wearing 54. 0, 00 and 91 on the court together just seems unserious to me
So numbers change every year or every game?
lma getting his # retired in portland makes about as much sense as chris bosh getting his retired in toronto
S B B h lol
so they took number 12 away at some point yeah
He’s going to be a bust now.
Dude looks like he works the ticket booth with that polo 😂
Edit: Owner fired a bunch of staff and said “Ja, wear this.” 😂
sigh… the blazers aren’t a serious franchise
Y’all missing the point they just don’t want Ja to tarnish a potential top Blazers number if it doesn’t work out.
Doesn’t mean they’ll retire LMA anytime soon. They just don’t want it to ruin the option to eventually do it.
Blazers down bad to retire a guy that played only 8 years and didn’t bring them any hardware. Blazers drafted a PG that was an All Star by year 2 they could have actually made noise but he still bailed on them in his first UFA
He actually looks like he matured a bit. Never was a fan of him but good to see him have a different energy now.
I really hope Portland works out for him, I miss watching Ja be Ja
I see the blazers cheap ass owner banking on “retiring” LMA for easy cash grab. Don’t fall for it blazers fan stay out of that arena
He used to be considered the new face of the NBA and now it’s unlikely he’ll be a starter in Portland. The fall is self-induced
He’s definitely gonna start. I believe the Trail Blazers already said it.
scoot and washed dame arent starting over him
Ja looks like he’s gotten a little older judging by looking at his face
People get older as time goes by?!
Big if true
Chugging handles can do that to you
He gone
I don’t think ja will be in the league in 3 years
I don’t think you will be in the league ever
I also don’t pull guns on 17 year Olds but hey its the culture that’s celebrated by a certain group.
Tell me more about this certain group you dislike
thugs who value street culture over being a decent human being and they come in all shapes and sizes
Maybe it’s just me but Ja looks rough…multiple puffy circles under his eyes look like something you’d see from someone 2 decades older than him while coming off a hangover
Well he is in the process of moving across the country
If you think Ja’s in the process of moving anything across the country I don’t know what to tell you
Moving involves a lot more than paying movers. You’ll understand one day.
Ja’s not packing shit, nor is he dealing with any of the logistics - but poopcie, please do take pity on the poor multi-millionaire NBA player the effing simp you are lmao
Stop worrying about other people and find a way out of you parents house. If youre this clueless about something as simple as moving i doubt youve ever paid a bill.
Ahh, now moving’s a “simple” process says the multi-millionaire simp hypocrite - you must love fantasizing about gagging on Ja’s balls so much, although I also get there’s not much else for you to do in that barren wasteland of Minnesota lmao