Daily Ding: Olshey out in Portland, Suns streak ends, Spurs, Cavs, Grizzlies looking good!
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
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Keith Parish and Dave DuFour recap the news and action from the weekend. Portland has fired GM Neil Olshey. The Suns winning streak stops at 18. The Bulls defeat the Nets. Cavs impress in loss to Jazz. Grizzlies complete a first for Stat of the Weekend.
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| 0:00.0 | Ding, ding. |
| 0:03.0 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
| 0:08.8 | How about we can just watch basketball? |
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| 0:17.6 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Keith Parrish for your Monday morning weekend |
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| 0:42.5 | Lots to get to, so we're going to jump right in. Keith, on Friday, the Portland Trailblazers announced the firing of their general manager and president of basketball operations |
| 0:46.5 | Neil Olsheh after completing an investigation into concerns and complaints around, quote, |
| 0:52.4 | our workplace environment at the practice facility. |
| 0:55.7 | The Trailblazers have chosen not to release the details or discuss the investigation, |
| 1:00.2 | quote, out of respect for those who candidly participated in that privileged investigation. |
| 1:05.6 | The team said in a statement, quote, the Portland Trailblazers are committed to building an organization |
| 1:10.8 | that positively impacts our colleagues, communities, and the world in which we live and play. |
| 1:16.5 | So a bit of a mess of a season so far in Portland. Over at the athletic, Jason Quick has a look |
| 1:21.7 | at just how messy it's been. I recommend everyone go over there and read it. Keith, what happens in |
| 1:26.9 | Portland now? |
| 1:28.9 | You know, maybe not a ton as far as like player transaction and big shakeups. |
| 1:34.6 | I don't feel like they necessarily are required or need to do any kind of like big shakeup. |
| 1:40.8 | Like they're not totally out of it. I think the roster is competitive. They had an embarrassing loss on Saturday to the Celtics. And afterwards, Chauncey Billups was saying all kinds of stuff about how, like, this is unacceptable. And he talked to the players about how, you know, like, this is not okay. And he basically also kind of threw him under the bus the starters saying |
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