Blazer's Edge dug into Paul Allen's new memoir Idea Man -- on shelves today! -- to see if the billionaire Microsoft co-founder had anything interesting to say about his hobby of owning the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. As it turns out, he does!
Paul Allen Uses Memoir To Criticize Former Blazers GMs
↵↵Allen says that former GM Kevin Pritchard “had a good gut for gauging young talent” but that he “struggled in the managerial parts of his job.”
↵↵This coming from the guy who fired Pritchard hours before the NBA Draft, only the biggest day of the year for GMs. Also, Allen claims he turned down a Clyde Drexler-for-Hakeem Olajuwon trade in the early ‘90s because he was too close a friend with The Glide. I vote that we pretend Allen never said that, and that we move on with our lives.
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