奇怪，別人開季都是開開心心的，怎麼我們開季就鬧出一堆事情，無照駕駛， 心結，還有一個正在上法庭咧。 Ruben Patterson: Not a happy camper; He wanted out -- and away from Zach Randolph Ruben Patterson will report for the opening of Trail Blazer training camp Friday, but he is not a happy camper. The veteran small forward, still seething from last April's practice altercation with teammate Zach Randolph, says former President/General Manager Bob Whitsitt promised he would be traded during the offseason. "He knew my situation," Patterson says. "I told him I didn't want to be around Zach. This is a guy who blind-sided me for no reason. Nobody would want to be around a teammate who sucker- punched you when you weren't looking." Patterson missed the next three games with a fractured eye socket, and Randolph was suspended for two games for his part in the incident. Afterward, Patterson met with Whitsitt and coach Maurice Cheeks. "Bob said he respected the way I felt," Patterson says. "He and Mo were saying, 'OK, finish out the season, don't be a distraction,' and after the season they would make a move. And obviously, it hasn't happened." Patterson and his wife, Shannon, sold their Tualatin home in May and moved to Columbus, Ohio. Ruben, who did not spend a day in Portland all summer and wasn't scheduled to return until Wednesday, says he has waited in vain for news of a trade that never occurred. Shortly after the season, Whitsitt resigned and was replaced by Steve Patterson as president and John Nash as general manager. Nash says he has tried to negotiate a deal involving Ruben but has been unable to get anything done. Patterson has four years and $24.6 million left on the six-year, $34-million free-agent deal that Whitsitt signed him to in 2001. Patterson also has a trade kicker, meaning if he is dealt to another team, he is due an additional 15 percent of the balance of the contract within 30 days of the trade. In Patterson's case, that amounts to about $3.7 million. The receiving team "What I told Ruben and (agent) Dan Fegan at the beginning of the summer still stands," Nash says. "We would trade him if it were in our best interest. I probably looked a little more aggressively (to trade him) to avoid having an unhappy player, but I also said we were not going to trade him for the sake of trading him and sacrifice talent as a result." Hampering Nash's efforts to make a deal is Patterson's reputation. He has a lengthy record since his days at the University of Cincinnati, where he was arrested for aggravated burglary and was suspended for 14 games his final season for NCAA extra- benefits violations. Since coming to the NBA, Patterson, 28, has been convicted of misdemeanor assault for breaking a man's jaw outside a Cleveland nightclub and entered a modified-guilty plea to third-degree attempted rape of his family's nanny in Seattle. Patterson's name has been mentioned in trade talks with several teams, but no deal has occurred, much to the forward's chagrin. -- 我實在搞不懂... 有人那麼白目還可以當版主... --

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