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    RIP Steve "Snapper" Jones

    Quite simply, the best announcer in any sport I've ever heard, even if I didn't agree with his basic basketball philosophy that basketball is about scoring baskets, not defense and ball movement.

    He was an incredibly amiable human being. Paul Allen fired him (like dozens of others) because he wouldn't give up his integrity to please Paul Allen...no homerism, which sickens me when I hear announcers do it (Portland's top-4 current announcers do it after two were fired last Summer and one quit, so I have to catch broadcasts in silence if I can't sinc the radio).

    His sickness forced him to leave public life about 8 years ago.

    Loved listening to him call Walton out, in a friendly manner, on his B.S.
    "One problem with people who have no vices is that they're pretty sure to have some annoying virtues."

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