Nobody Ever Went Broke Underestimating John Canzano
Thank you to John Canzano for providing a copy of this article.
By now you’re familiar with the situation regarding Darius Miles and the Portland Trail Blazers.A regrettably familiar spot for the organization; once again, instead of talking about the players on the court, we find ourselves caught up in what’s going on off of it. At the center of this debacle (standing next to Darius Miles) is Paul Allen’s newest pet, sports writer/radio personality John Canzano. Motivated by his personal distaste for Darius and his agent, Jeffery Wechsler, Canzano did everything in his power to skewer Miles.
CLOWNZANO! GET IT?
In an interview with thebiglead.com, Canzano quipped that Darius was trying to make a comeback because ‘he misses being able to tell strippers that he’s an NBA player.’ Ha ha. That’s funny… Until you realize that Canzano dedicated an entire column of drivel to this topic. Upon receiving a tip that Darius had spent a Saturday night at Portland strip club Dolphin II, he wrote an article titled ‘Darius Miles, Hang it up‘. Where he peddles his righteous values and moral superiority (Canzano is probably the type of guy that would leave wife and family for another woman!). Consider that while Canzano finds the fact that Darius’ off nights spent at strip clubs newsworthy, Blazer beat writer Jason Quick has never once mentioned these outings in print.
Canzano went on to gripe that he couldn’t get Darius’ agent on the phone. Welscher’s comments have popped up on the Blazers blog Blazers Edge multiple times. When a blog can get a sports agent on the phone to comment on a story, but the state’s only daily newspaper can’t, something isn’t right. It’s either somebody is too lazy to do their job or they’ve seriously pissed someone off by making things up.
Autzen!
Making things up? Also not below Canzano. Columinst turned blogger Dwight Jaynes wrote an article about a possible violation of federal regulations when Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard publicly commented on the status and severity of Darius’ microfacture surgery. Canzano went ballistic on his radio show; claming that Jaynes was doing nothing more than perpetuating a rumor planted by Darius’ agent. Jaynes fired back, absolutely shredding Canzano. The public shaming didn’t stop there, Ben of Blazers Edge went on to dismantle Canzano’s tirade.
Canzano went on to say, ‘He will never play another productive game.’ While Canzano maintained that Darius’ career was over, multiple reporters, along with Miles, disagreed completely.
Canzano’s disconnect with the reality of the Darius situation and the Blazers overall status with the league was put on display Sunday when he was shocked to learn that Pritchard is not well liked in the elite fraternity of NBA GMs and owners. If Canzano bothered to do his job and look for Blazer news outside the Blazers’ RSS feed he would’ve known this already.
It’s hard to believe that somebody who’s as close to the Blazers organization as Canzano could be so wrong when it came to what was actually going on with Darius. He was either lying through his teeth or flat out wrong. Probably a combination of the two. Regardless, this incident taught us who NOT to trust when it comes to news regarding the Blazers.
/dick joke
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Dolphin II is nice, but it’s no Dolphin I..
Thank you. Canzano just takes a page from the local right winger on his radio show (Lars Larson on his sister station) and brings up issues to generate ratings. He likes to be a moral crusader, call out Bellotti’s wife for being allegedly drunk at a football game just to get the pub. It’s called a tailgate Canzano and if you weren’t such a dick you may be invited to one.
I do not understand how Mr. 1950 preaches values and morals and puts aside all of the unspoken decency people had in 1950 for his own purposes. He thinks of him self a straight shooter. I think of him as a spineless dick. Whatever, I quit reading or listening years ago.
Given the choice between a road trip with Darius or Canzano I would easily choose Darius. At least we can use that 18 million he is about to get to “make it rain”.
I think you are thinking like sukrat, but I think you should cover the other side of the topic in the post too…
As a long-time Blazer fan, I can concur that Canzano is a D-Bag of epic proportions. He can’t scoop anything on the Blazers (or any other local teams), so he goes right for the sleaze-ball story with plenty of his own self-righteousness built-in. When he can’t find any sleaze he doctors up the “Jimmy can’t read and it breaks my heart and you should all donate to save Jimmy’s soul because I’m about to cry” story. Thanks for the recap because I refuse to actually “view” Canzano articles as a matter of principle.
BTW, D. Miles is also a large pile of poo. Send them both on the road trip together and hope neither ever comes back.