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With the off-season surgeries of Brandon Roy, Channing Frye, Raef LaFrentz, and Casey Holdahl you can't help but ponder the likelihood of injuries affecting Portland's chances, at least in the near term.  Unlike many people, I am fairly slow to bestow the label "injury prone" on ...
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