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Bonzi Wells: We had a window but just after that game it was like so deflating. Matt Barnes: Sheed, you said you put the blame on yourself. Tell me why. Rasheed Wallace: Oh yeah cuz out of them 13 shots I missed, like six or seven of them and they was dummies too. Right there in front. Boom. Yo jump shot. Boom. Jump hook. Boom. Right there. I've missed all that sh*t. So, I put a majority of it on myself. And I also I think for me in my opinion where all that sh*t started going downhill was when Mike Dunleavy called the timeout after we was telling him not to call a timeout. He's trying to call a timeout and we trying to distract the refs like no, no, no…

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For a few years beginning in the late 1990s, the Portland Trail Blazers found success against opponents while a trio of their star players consistently found trouble off the court. The new Netflix docuseries episode Untold: Jail Blazers highlights how the franchise ran afoul while achieving consecutive Western Conference finals appearances in 1999 and 2000 — thanks to the antics of Rasheed Wallace, Damon Stoudamire and Bonzi Wells.

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Through interviews with the former players and sports pundits, Jail Blazers, premiering April 14, looks back on the historic chapter in the NBA — dubbed by sportswriter John Canzano as “the greatest sociology experiment in sports.” The team’s rise began when Portland acquired soon-to-be All-Star Wallace from the Washington Bullets in 1996. “It was like someone dropped the base on this franchise,” Canzano says.

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Carlos Arroyo: My first year was in Toronto. I was playing garbage time against Bonzi Wells. I was at half-court, we were shooting a free throw. I had some runs you know, some assists between the legs, I had some look away passes, and something like that. He got closer to me and he asked ‘Hey young fella, where are you from?’ And I said Puerto Rico and he replied ‘Hey you got that Salsa in your game’ [laughs]. I guess I played with that kind of rhythm. I loved passing the ball, I enjoyed like the look-away pass (…) I remember when I got to the Detroit, Larry Brown was trying to you know kind of like take that away from my game. He was like ‘Make the solid play’, make the hockey assist. I learned the hockey assist when I was here in Miami with coach Ron Rothstein.

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Based on how their careers turned out, Green looks like the better player between the two. However, some old heads, including Kenyon Martin and Brandon Jennings, don't share that belief. "Bonzi Wells better than Draymond Green," Jennings said during a recent episode of "Gil's Arena." "That sh*t ain't even fu*king close," Martin replied.

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Rasheed Wallace: ‘So one day he's killing us and I see him in the back and I'm like ‘Yo dog, you got to stop talking about our guys like that because you're sitting up here saying this and that’, and it went on, Bonzi Wells was saying like ’Yo, this could f*** up a job opportunity later because you sitting up here bashing because you don't know the whole story, you just going off of the whole mystique of the Jail Blazers’. I said ‘I know about them acid trips. I said ‘I know,’ I named my girl and her husband and I was like ‘Yo, keep talking sh*t about us, I'm gonna start talking sh*t about you’. I had no problems with him from there on out. You can't be hypocritical.

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“Vin Baker. Vin’s like an uncle to me,” Payton shared with Poole and Johnson. “We used to go fishing when my mom was pregnant with my brother. Detlef [Schrempf], Hersey [Hawkins]. Those were all of [Gary Sr.’s] teammates. Nate McMillan, Damon Stoudamire– [Jason] Kidd is like family, too. [Brian] Shaw is family. Big [Shaquille O'Neal]. Rest in peace Kobe [Bryant]. Kobe was around back then. I can literally go on. Bonzie Wells.”

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Chris Broussard: Another ex-NBA player could be returning to coach his alma mater. @Bonzi Wells is interviewing for the Ball State job tomorrow. Following in the footsteps of Michigan’s Juwan Howard & UNC’s Hubert Davis, whose teams are still dancing in the NCAA Tournament.

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Mark Giannotto: Bonzi Wells is officially the new men’s basketball coach at LeMoyne-Owen.

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Mark Giannotto: Bonzi Wells said the original plan was for Rasheed Wallace to be the LeMoyne Owen head coach and Wells would serve as assistant. Then Penny Hardaway “stole” Wallace. Rasheed and Bonzi are going to live together in the Memphis area and continue to record their podcast.

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LeMoyne-Owen is in the process of finalizing an agreement to name former NBA player Bonzi Wells its next men's basketball coach, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. The source requested anonymity because the hire has not been announced. A formal announcement is expected in the coming days.

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Former NBA official Tim Donaghy alleged in the Let’s Get Technical podcast with former players Bonzi Wells and Rasheed Wallace that the latter was often the target of $20 bets among referees, about who could give the forward a technical foul first. “And speaking of those technical fouls, you know, especially with [Wallace], depending on who was refereeing the game, if I was with a couple of my buddies, you know, we’d throw $20 on the table when we had a team like Portland and [Wallace], and we’d say, ‘The first one to bang Rasheed with a technical foul gets $60.” So, there were a lot of games that, you know, went on behind the scenes. When you say you deserve those technicals, eh, probably a couple of them were given out a little bit quicker than they were for the next guy because of a simple $20 bet in the locker room.”

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In an appearance this week on the “Let’s Get Technical” podcast with retired NBA stars Rasheed Wallace and Bonzi Wells, Gerald Brown of SiriusXM NBA Radio noted the presence of rumors linking Popovich to the Brooklyn Nets. The rumors state that Nets owner Joe Tsai is looking to make a “godfather offer” to Popovich for him to come coach the team.

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Josh Paredes: "There's a story going around that the Brooklyn Nets are looking to make a Godfather offer to Gregg Popovich." #GoSpursGo

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