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  Blazers fan Henry Abbott picked a good year to join ESPN.  That must have been fun.

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Trailblazers win NBA Draft Lottery. Suicide watch out for Bill Simmons. Mock Drafts shall commence.
Published 5/23/2007 by Blog@FanIQ.com (CriticalFanatic) at FanIQ Blog
... 1. Portland - Couldn't be any happier for this franchise. Their fans, arguable the best in the league, deserve better than the Jailblazers. They were run to laugh at, now they're not going to be any fun to play. Durant is an intriguing option here, but you just can't pass on Greg Oden. He's not Sam Bowie. Needless to say, Henry Abbott is pleased.

Greg Oden is probably a Trailblazer
Published 5/23/2007 by The Cavalier at YAYsports! NBA
... Look out for Portland next year, eh? Congrats to TrueHoop Henry, who attended the proceedings.

Brandon Roy Can Do No Wrong
Published 5/23/2007 by Cornrows at Indy Cornrows: Front Page Posts
... Wow! Adding Greg Oden the current young talent on the Blazers sounds like a pretty sweet fit. Blazer fanatic, Henry Abbot, called the pick ealier today. Must've been his daughter's clothespin-and-paper-towel butterfly.

The Draft Lottery Miracle
Published 5/23/2007 by Casey Holdahl at Blazers Blog - OregonLive.com
... . Unbelievable. I don't know if there was some kind of divine intervention, a collective moment of event-changing consciousness or some other kind of unexplainable phenomenon, but what ever it was, it's awesome. Mike Barrett keeps saying it over and over again, and it's 100% true: This changes everything. Henry Abbott thinks he might have been the difference : I don't want to put myself in the middle of the story or anything, but I can't shake the feeling that I did this. Clothespins fashioned as butterflies with my daughter's face on them now have a 100% success rate in bringing home the best possible draft pick. It really is an amazing moment for the Portland Trail Blazers. Now Kevin Pritchard gets to do all his gamesmanship magic and try to freak out the rest of the league -- who know that he'll do some bold stuff because he did it last year. I am not convinced that that this is guaranteed to be a Gr

Stern punishes Grizzlies, Celtics
Published 5/23/2007 by la287 at Daily Basketball
... The NBA lottery brought resulted in three teams beating their odds, with the Portland Trailblazers winning the #1 draft pick. NBA GMs and front office now look to purchase “clothespin-and-paper-towel butterflies,” much like the one owned by True Hoop writer and avid Trailblazers fan Henry Abbott..

Envelope opening is more fun than a Conference Final game
Published 5/23/2007 by Sam Rubenstein at SLAM Online
... Congrats to all the Blazer fans out there. Henry Abbott of True Hoop fame – A Blazer fan - takes over espn’s basketball section, and now the Blazers are winning the lottery? Hmmmmmmm…

NBA Draft Lottery: Yet Another Great Reason To Live In Portland
Published 5/23/2007 at Deadspin
... . (The official favorite team of Henry Abbott at True Hoop, who was at the lottery last night and, amusingly, is only a month-plus into his ESPN tenure and is already praising the free buffets.) CNBC's Darren Rovell crunches the numbers and finds

Bloggers React: NBA Draft Lottery
Published 5/23/2007 by Blog@FanIQ.com (CriticalFanatic) at FanIQ Blog
... The winning blogger of the night, Henry Abbott ...