This Week in Oregon Sports History: 8/9 - 8/15

There are many goings on in this second week of August, and we at oregonsports.com would like to wish a Happy Birthday to a few individuals. First off, Happy Birthday to a few basketball legends that have nothing to do with Oregon: Happy 82nd to Celtics great Bob Cousy on 8/9 and happy 51st to Lakers legend Magic Johnson on 8/14. Another NBA legend born this week but no longer with us was Knicks coaching hero Red Holzman, who was born on on August 10, 1920.

More importantly (for the purposes of this blog), Happy 22nd Birthday to Portland Trailblazer Patty Mills on August 11th, and Happy 44th Birthday to Scott Brosius who now has back-to-back weeks featured on "This Week In Oregon Sports History."

And finally, this week in Oregon sports history we peek into the future, as Lostradamus celebrates August 13th, 2010. This Friday, Scottie Pippen will be enshrined to the Basketball Hall Of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, joining Lenny Wilkens, Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, and Drazen Petrovic as the 5th Blazer player in the Hall. While known mostly for his 6 championships with the Bulls dynasty of the 90's, Pippen played 4 seasons for Portland from 1999 to 2003. He was the leader on some very talented Blazer teams that could never quite get over the hump of the Lakers in the early 2000's, and his legacy in Portland (and everywhere else, for that matter) might be remembered quite differently if the Blazers hadn't surrendered a 17 point 4th quarter lead in Game 7 to the eventual champion Lakers in 2000.