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Blazers prepared to take small steps

By John Hollinger
ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Say this for the Blazers: They aren't putting the cart before the horse. Not if you judge by their media day, anyway. Of course, distilling a message from these events often proves difficult. Every year, for every team, large chunks of the yearly media event are as predictable as a sunrise: Player X doesn't care about minutes, he just wants to win; Coach Y says he'll use the whole roster and wants to run more this year; and Player Z added the proverbial 15 pounds of muscle ...

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