As the defeated the Brooklyn Nets 105-103 on Wednesday night, they did so without the services of starting center Deandre Ayton for the 12th straight game. 11 of those absences were due to ongoing tendinitis in the 7-footer’s knee. Ayton missed Wednesday’s game because he could not get to the arena due to icy conditions in the Portland area.
One day after the contest, Sean Beckwith of Deadspin took the opportunity to blast Ayton and nearly everyone associated with the Blazers alongside. In a brief, barb-filled article, Beckwith took the entire organization to task for their disappointing season and everything that’s led up to it
Beckwith started, and ended, with the Ayton situation, expressing incredulity that the center could not find his way to work when so many others did that evening:
Now, there are some backwoods neighborhoods in the Rose City, the U.