Damn, third one this week! First Dwight Howard returned to Orlando on Tueday, then Melo returned to Denver on Wednesday and tonight Raymond Felton returns to Portland. Felton didn’t hold back on how he feels about his return and sent a warning to “certain people.”
Check out what he had to say…
Via HOWARD BECK at the NYTimes:
Raymond Felton spent 137 days in Portland, hardly long enough to find a good dry cleaner or to learn the names of all those bridges. But long enough, apparently, to have thoroughly alienated the Trail Blazers, their fans and the local news media.
Felton was terribly out of shape last season, by his own admission. The Blazers were dysfunctional. The locals were unforgiving. It was, to say the least, a disastrous experience.
“Probably the worst moment I had in basketball,” Felton said Wednesday, as he prepared to return to Portland for the first time, as the starting point guard for the Knicks.
“You can’t blame anything on just one person. It’s all about a team, and it’s all about everybody coming together trying to win games. Like I said from Day 1, I said I wasn’t in shape, I came in out of shape. But I busted my behind every day, got myself into shape for the latter of the season. That’s pretty much it. Anything else negative is just them trying to find a story to write about, that’s all.”
“I’m not going to put it on the fans, because some of the fans there are great,” Felton said. “I made a lot of good friends there.” But, he added ominously, “It was certain people there that I don’t want to see and better not come near me — at all.”
