The snow is just pouring down in Tremont today, which would be kinda cool, except that ESPN just re-ran the 1987 AFC Championship game, and the weather outside today is a bit too close to the weather at Cleveland Stadium on that day. Why do they have to run that game all that time? Here’s an idea…whenever ESPN wants to re-run that game, how about they black it out in the Cleveland area?
That seems a bit extreme.
The festivities did not include retiring Free’s No. 21, which he and many fans have wanted for years… “I look at the names up there and I say to myself, ‘It would be an honor to be in the rafters with them,’ ” Free said. “I helped revamp a franchise that was dead, completely dead. If you can do something like that, you deserve to be up there.”
But gimme a break. World B. Free did not “revamp” anything. What brought the Cavs back to life was the draft that brought Brad Daugherty, Mark Price, and Ron Harper to Cleveland. World B. Free was a great shooter on a pretty poor team.
I guess the PD likes that people talk about Brown, I plead guilty there, but what is this?
No, Cavs point guard Damon Jones was not happy about our Wednesday column, taking him to task for publicly sulking this season. (Jones didn’t think our characterization that he hasn’t handled things in a mature fashion was fair.) Yes, Jones and this columnist had a frank, lengthy and somewhat intense discussion that night in the Cavs’ locker room, following the team’s win over the Los Angeles Clippers.
I must have missed something, but…who cares? Looks to me like Roger got a few tongues wagging (specifically Damon’s) with that shot at Damon, decided that he liked being the center of attention, and decided to write another piece about Damon to keep the tongues wagging.