At long last, the Jail Blazers are telling their side of the story. This week, Netflix debuts a hotly anticipated documentary, Untold: Jail Blazers<\/i>, that explores an inglorious epoch of Portland basketball, stretching from roughly 1997 to 2005, when Blazer players were regularly in trouble with the law and hostile to Rose Garden fans. This is a matter of some interest to this newspaper. For better or for worse, WW<\/i> coined the term \u201cJail Blazers\u201d on the cover of the Aug. 14, 1996, edition. Do we really want to relitigate this decision? As a matter of fact, we already did, with a 2018 exercise in self-reflection<\/a>. \u201cTwo things can be true at once,\u201d Curtis Cook wrote in that package. \u201cPortland can be a racist city with a problematic attitude toward Black athletes, and Ruben Patterson can be a piece of shit. One narrative doesn\u2019t blot out the other.\u201d In that same reappraisal, we checked in on six of the best-known players from that era. This week, we watched the doc shortly before press time, and updated that story with the quotes each player gave to the filmmakers. <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 1996<\/p>\n Quotes from his Blazer days:<\/b> \u201cAs long as somebody \u2018CTC,\u2019 at the end of the day I\u2019m with them,\u201d he told Oregonian<\/i> columnist John Canzano in 2003. \u201cFor all you that don\u2019t know what CTC means, that\u2019s \u2018cut the check.\u2019\u201d That same year, he responded to all questions in a 2003 postgame interview with the same answer: \u201cBoth teams played hard, my man.\u201d<\/p>\n Low point:<\/b> The NBA suspended Wallace for seven games\u2014a league record\u2014after he allegedly threatened referee Tim Donaghy and charged him on the Rose Garden\u2019s loading dock after a game in 2003.<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> After leaving the Blazers in 2004, he won an NBA title with the Detroit Pistons. He retired in 2013 with an NBA record for most technical fouls\u2014317. In December, Tennessee Collegiate Academy in Memphis hired Wallace as an associate head coach for its boys basketball team.<\/p>\n What he told Netflix:<\/b> He is not mad. \u201cTo the people that didn\u2019t support me and wanted me gone: Fuck \u2019em. I left. Yeah, and you\u2019re still mad. You know, I\u2019m not mad. You\u2019re still mad. So\u2026sleep on that one.\u201d <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 1996<\/p>\n Quote from his Blazer days: <\/b>\u201cForty miles from here,\u201d he said of Portland in 2000, \u201cthey\u2019re probably still hanging people from trees.\u201d<\/p>\n Low point:<\/b> In 1997, he missed a team flight to Phoenix. The company arranging the charter flight declined to book Rider his own plane. He allegedly spat at an employee, shouted obscenities, and smashed a cellphone. He later spat on a fan.<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> His life fell apart after his forced retirement from the league in 2001. He bounced back by starting a kids basketball training program in Arizona called Sky Rider. In December, the New York Post <\/i>reported, he was arrested for failing to appear at a court hearing regarding a protective order filed by his wife.<\/p>\n What he told Netflix:<\/b> He goes unmentioned in the documentary. <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 1998<\/p>\n Quote from his Blazer days:<\/b> \u201cI feel like there are a lot of people out there who are living through me,\u201d the hometown hero told The Oregonian<\/i> in 1999. \u201cSo the same dreams that they had, they might not have gotten there, but I\u2019m living their dreams. They want to see me do well. And when I don\u2019t do well, I feel like I\u2019m letting them down, too.\u201d<\/p>\n Low point:<\/b> In July 2003, Stoudamire was arrested at Tucson International Airport for trying to pass through a metal detector with an ounce and a half of marijuana wrapped in aluminum foil. He was suspended from the team for three months and fined $250,000, and spent the next year under constant media scrutiny.<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> He was head coach of Georgia Tech for three years until his firing this spring (the team wasn\u2019t very good). He was quickly hired as an assistant coach at Louisiana State University. <\/p>\n What he told Netflix:<\/b> The movie makes a compelling case that Clackamas County cops had it out for a hometown Black kid living in Lake Oswego with too much money. \u201cI still don\u2019t think that stuff was racial,\u201d he says. \u201cThere were racial undertones.\u201d <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 1998<\/p>\n Quote from his Blazer days:<\/b> \u201cWe\u2019re not really going to worry about what the hell [the fans] think about us,\u201d he told Sports Illustrated<\/i> in 2001. \u201cThey really don\u2019t matter to us. They can boo us every day, but they\u2019re still going to ask for our autographs if they see us on the street. That\u2019s why they\u2019re fans and we\u2019re NBA players.\u201d<\/p>\n Low point: <\/b>After one Blazers loss in 2002, Wells flipped off a fan in the Rose Garden. He told a reporter he couldn\u2019t recall doing it: \u201cI black out sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> After leaving the NBA in 2009, Wells played stints in China and Puerto Rico. Stoudamire hired him for the Georgia Tech coaching staff in 2023, and he\u2019s still there.<\/p>\n What he told Netflix:<\/b> He is the most poignant figure in the documentary; his return to the Rose Quarter gives the film its emotional resonance. \u201cI never left home in my life before I went to Portland, Oregon,\u201d he says. \u201cThat\u2019s 2,500 miles away from Indiana. I turned into a man out there, and then they gave up on me, and that hurt me more than anything.\u201d <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 2001<\/p>\n Quote from his Blazer days:<\/b> \u201cI\u2019m not no bad guy,\u201d he said during his introductory press conference. \u201cI\u2019m not no rapist. I\u2019m a great guy.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n Low point:<\/b> In 2001, shortly before the Blazers signed him, he allegedly forced the 24-year-old nanny of his children to perform a sex act on him.<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> After retiring from the NBA in 2007, he joined the National Basketball Retired Players Association and received help to go back to school to finish his college degree. Last year, he posted on Instagram that he\u2019d been swindled by his business manager.<\/p>\n What he told Netflix: <\/b>Patterson doesn\u2019t speak, but Wallace describes his signing as general manager Bob Whitsitt\u2019s one big misstep. \u201cI would say that\u2019s the only time that I truly could say I was mad with Bob or upset with Bob.\u201d <\/p>\n Joined team in:<\/b> 2001<\/p>\n Quote from his Blazer days:<\/b> \u201cI\u2019m a gangster,\u201d he allegedly told police in 2006, \u201cnot a Blazer.\u201d<\/p>\n Low point:<\/b> In 2003, he sucker-punched Ruben Patterson in the face during practice as two teammates held Patterson back. Oregonian<\/i> reporter John Canzano said Randolph hid at another teammate\u2019s house for two days, fearing that Patterson would shoot him.<\/p>\n Where he is now:<\/b> In 2009, Randolph joined the Memphis Grizzlies. He thrived on the court and became a mentor in poor, black neighborhoods. He retired from the NBA in 2019. His daughter Mackenly plays college hoops for Louisville. <\/p>\n What he told Netflix: <\/b>He isn\u2019t given a chance to speak. Justice for Zach! <\/p>\n SEE IT:<\/b> Untold: Jail Blazers<\/i> streams on Netflix. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n ; At long last, the Jail Blazers are telling their side of the story. This week, Netflix debuts a hotly anticipated documentary, Untold: Jail Blazers, that explores an inglorious epoch of Portland basketball, stretching from roughly 1997 to 2005, when Blazer players were regularly in trouble with the law and hostile to Rose Garden fans. 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Isaiah \u201cJ.R.\u201d Rider<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Damon Stoudamire<\/b><\/h3>\n
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Ruben Patterson<\/b><\/h3>\n
Zach Randolph<\/b><\/h3>\n
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