Brandon Roy to Have Jersey Retired
After the Dawg Dash, the lady at the Husky ticket booth dropped this little gem on me:
The Dawgs are retiring Brandon Roy’s #3 on January 22 against USC.
I haven’t been able to find anything about this on Go Huskies, so this may be a scoop. Get your tickets now. This is a night that you do NOT want to miss. Fly in from wherever you are. I may take the day off work.
Obviously, we’ve gone on at length in this blog about how sweet Brandon Roy is. I think every time I speak with Sparko, B-Roy’s name comes up. Flawson’s Rookie of the Year shirt is in tatters, he wears it so much. And Manny compiled some video highlights of the man himself (although I don’t really care for his choice of words – just shows a lack of class on his part. And everyone else’s, for that matter. I don’t think you guys are really my friends at all. Maybe I’ll just take my blog and go home. Butts.)
But back to the subject, Brandon Roy is the greatest human being many of us have ever or will ever know. Soft-spoken but ferocious on the court, he’s the perfect face of a franchise, college or pro. I hate the Blazers obviously, but I may start rooting for them just to see Brandon do his thing.
Bob Condotta wrote a piece praising Roy about how easy he was to talk to at Washington in Sports Northwest magazine. (Great publication btw – get your subscription today. Fantastic soccer/lingerie football content. Golf’s OK.)
I can definitely back up Condotta’s sentiment. I remember talking to him the day he became eligible, and being skeptical that a guy this nice would ever get minutes in front of Dub-C and Nate. What was this busta doing declaring for the NBA, I thought.
How naive I was – I just didn’t know.
My friends from Seattle tried to school me to his HS legend. JTBW kept a library of local legends’ high school games, going all the way back to Jason Terry and Corey Dillon. (Wow. Corey Dillon playing safety against, you know, Inglemoor* or someone. Can you imagine?)
It was only after watching these tapes that I began to get a measure of how great this #3 could be.
And, of course, he lived up to all the hype. His game elevated in the big conference games against UCLA and Stanford. He was unstoppable in the Pac-10 Tournament. When he was out injured, the team was listless and without a rudder. For as much as Hard-Working Bobby Jones was the heart of the team, B-Roy was the heartbeat.
That being said, though, he did not have as storied a college career as Adam Morrison. No one can dispute this. Good player, but no ‘Stache. I’m just saying. Comments below, please.
*I kid; I kid the Vikings.
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This is how good Brandon Roy was: your stupid comments about Morrison at the end couldn’t even ruin this post (although they tried – like Morrison is ruining the NBA as we speak).
Seriously though – a few years ago I went to a Packers game at Lambeau field. The Packers were terrible. They lost to the Steelers who had Charlie Batch at QB (Ben was injured of course). The thing was: Nobody cared. I must have heard, ‘we’ve got #4, anything is possible,” 100 times. They all believed that because they had Brett Favre, they could win every game.
That is how I felt about Brandon Roy his last 2 seasons at UW. Didn’t matter… We had #3. Nobody should ever wear that jersey again. If what you say is true – I wouldn’t trade my ticket to the USC game for anything. And there’s a good chance I will cry.
I don’t know why you would invite comparisons between B-Roy and Morrison.
But it’s fun to see how this argument has shifted through the years. How will the Zag base react to this ideological retreat?
That was beautiful . . .
And yet again, hard-workin’ Bobby Jones has been waived…the journey must continue…
We would have retired his jersey at Garfield, but we couldn’t afford it. That would have left us with just 4 jerseys total, and apparently you’re not allowed to have 4 guys in uniform and one just running around out there in towel shorts and a doo rag.
But seriously, it’s been said a billion times, but Brandon Roy truly is the greatest athlete to ever walk the Earth. I’m convinced he’s a traveler of time and space, and we are so blessed that he decided to touch down during our lifetime and play at our school(s). Words can’t capture his brilliance. It’s impossible to compare him to anything* because he’s unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. My brother came home from his first week in middle school and said, “Mom, I met this kid named Brandon. He’s going to be in the NBA.” His talent is that obvious and undeniable. An eleven year old Nate Colwell could see it in an eleven year old Brandon Roy.
My only fear is that he may be too good, and thus, may end up destroying the game that he loves. I predict that over the next few years we are going to see an array of athletic feats that were once thought ridiculous, and with those, an onslaught of new rules in an attempt to neutralize B. Roy. For example, how do you score a dunk from the three point line? Is it worth 2 or 3, or maybe 23? Can a player really get a triple triple? Or a sextuple double? Is that even a real word? And what’s the sixth stat? Flip dunks? Broken backboards? Rejections that go in the other hoop? Players sent off the court in shame with broken ankles? How will we measure such a man? I am very excited to see where he takes the game of basketball, but as with all great things comes a certain level of anxiety that I may have my mind blown out of my ass at any given moment if I see something that I am not prepared to see.
*especially crying, diabetic faggots.
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