Blazers May Be Gone, but GM Kevin Pritchard Should Stay
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by Sam AmickFiled under: Suns, Trail Blazers, NBA PlayoffsPORTLAND, Ore. -- The dead man walking couldn't have looked more alive on Thursday night.
Kevin Pritchard was being Kevin Pritchard again, the Portland general manager mingling on the Rose Garden floor while wondering like the rest of the Rip City residents whether his team had one last punch in store.
True to their fighting form, they did.
So spirited was their 99-90 loss to Phoenix that the home crowd stood until the end as if the outcome was reversed, an insurmountable deficit and the end to a torturously-terrific season greeted in the final seconds ...