Losing Their Grip

Perhaps in a tacit admission that the team could use an image makeover, a new television ad for the Blazers features Wallace and Wells sneaking onto a court to play one-on-one after the janitor has gone home. The running joke in Portland, however, is that the way things are going, all the Blazers may soon be playing in an empty gym. As the team is fast learning, selling your soul is one thing. Finding willing buyers is quite another.