Sad news today with the REPORT of the passing of former Portland Trail Blazer center Kevin Duckworth at the Oregon coast Monday night.
Duckworth came to Portland from the San Antonio Spurs in December of 1986, in perhaps one of the greatest trades in Blazer history, a trade in which the Blazers sent the very disgruntled rookie Walter Berry in return. (The subject of Berry in Portland is worthy of a post in its own).
Local TV stations have been replaying one of Duck's greatest moments, returning to play with a broken hand in game seven of a 1990 playoff series with the Spurs ( it was sad to see Drazen Petrovic in those highlights as well), and the local radio shows have been filled with callers retelling stories of their encounters with the big man, the conclusion easily being drawn that we will all miss him not only for being a key cog in those great Blazer teams around the turn of the 90's but for his role in the community, qualities that were sorely lacking just a few short years later with the rise of the Jail Blazers.
Thanks for the great memories Kevin, you will certainly never be forgotten in these parts and, as I'm sure is being done all over the Northwest, one of your Dairy Queen glasses will be used to toast your memory.
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