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Chris Dudley is getting back into the political game. The former Portland Trail Blazer announced on Monday that he’s entering the GOP primary and hopes to be the next governor of Oregon. The news comes sixteen years after the former basketball center came within one percentage point of beating Democrat John Kitzhaber for governor in 2010.
Kerry Eggers: A group called "Rip City Forever," organized by Chris Dudley, Marshall Glickman, Erin Hubert, Joth Ricci & Ryan Buchanan, has been established to try to ensure that @trailblazers remain in Portland. More than 100 community leaders & ex-Blazers have written an open letter to mayor
“This is some real s—,” Klempner says as he continues to rifle through the foot-high stack, flinging contracts and letters signed by the likes of George Gervin, Larry Bird and LeBron James. Some papers have historical significance: docs connected to the league’s first collective bargaining agreement, salary cap and drug program, plus records from lockouts and lawsuits past. A manila folder emerges with a JOHNSON MAGIC sticker attached. Other pieces veer towards esoterica. There is a stack of signatures from players who came together to protest the changing of the regulation basketball in 2006. A collection of 1990s Knicks stars—Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Latrell Sprewell—signed a sheet to verify they’d received 1099s. On top of it is a hot pink sticky note, addressed to Klempner and signed by Chris Dudley, who wrote, “Didn’t realize I still had these… Hope it didn’t cause too much of a problem.”
As an undergraduate student at Yale, Brett M. Kavanaugh was involved in an altercation at a local bar during which he was accused of throwing ice on another patron, according to a police report.
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A witness to the fight said that Chris Dudley, a Yale basketball player who was friends with Mr. Kavanaugh, then hit the man in the ear with a glass, according to the police report, which was obtained by The New York Times. The report said that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was later treated at a local hospital. A detective was notified of the incident at 1:20 a.m. Mr. Dudley denied the accusation, according to the report.
Former NBA player Chris Dudley said he regularly drank with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh while the two were classmates at Yale University, although he “never, ever saw him blacked out" drunk.
“I went out with him all the time," Dudley told the Washington Post. "He never blacked out. Never even close to blacked out. There was drinking, and there was alcohol. Brett drank, and I drank. Did he get inebriated sometimes? Yes. Did I? Yes. Just like every other college kid in America.”
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Chris Dudley, a former professional basketball player who was the 2010 Republican candidate for Oregon governor, said Saturday he's moving to the San Diego area and leaving behind his short career in Oregon politics. Dudley's wife, also named Chris, has a business opportunity in the area, he told The Oregonian. He declined to describe the opportunity. Dudley played for 16 years in the NBA including two stints with the Portland Trailblazers and has lived in Lake Oswego, outside Portland, since 2003. In his 2010 campaign for governor, Dudley spent heavily but lost by 1.5 percentage points to Democrat John Kitzhaber. It was the closest any Republican has come to winning the office in decades. "Frankly, she's been following my lead for 15 years whether it's through the NBA or having your husband run for governor," Dudley said of his wife. "And I want to follow what makes sense for my wife and my family."
John Canzano: Chris Dudley is courtside with his kid, who is wearing a Kevin Love jersey. Said Duds: "He's known him since he was real little." Asked Dudley's kid if he wished dad would have won the governor's race. Kid: "Would have been great, but now he can coach all my teams."
Yet the Yale-educated diabetes advocate, who seemed to be a political novelty when he announced his campaign, still gets a glint in his eye when the discussion turns to politics. The loss — by a single percentage point — left Dudley and his family battered, but not defeated. He’s staying involved in the Republican Party and some hope he will run for political office again. In the most detailed interview since the race, Dudley and his wife, Chris Love Dudley, tell The Oregonian they haven’t ruled out the possibility of another campaign, although when and for what office is far from decided.