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It’s 1970, and the building known affectionately as the MC is to be home of an incredible journey. Harry Glickman’s dream of his own professional basketball team has come true, but now both struggle and joy lie ahead for the team’s improbable success, fall from grace and rebirth. Mania is the story of that unique bond between a city and it’s only professional sports team and the universal connection that it brings! Now for the first time, the voice of the fan and athlete paint a picture of a team struggling to achieve success in a small northwest community.
Told through a series of interviews (conducted over two years) including Harry Glickman, Stu Inman, Bill Schonely, Maurice Lucas, Art Alexakas (from the band Everclear), Paul Knauls, Clyde Drexler, Damon Stoudamire, and rookie of the year Brandon Roy.
Except from Portland Tribune columnist Kerry Eggers:
“I meant this to be a positive documentary about the Blazers,” says Schaefer, who began interviewing for the film in 2006 and didn’t complete the project until last month. “It’s coming from a fan’s point of view.”
Schaefer starts at Day One, when promoter Harry Glickman pushed the envelope with the NBA and landed an expansion franchise in 1970. There are excerpts of interviews with Glickman and the late Stu Inman, the team’s first scout and director of player personnel; with Jack Ramsay, coach of the 1977 championship team, legendary radio voice Bill Schonely and Rick Adelman, a guard on the original Blazer team and later coach of the teams that reached the NBA finals in 1990 and ‘92.
Glickman reveals that the Blazers paid Cleveland $250,000 to take Austin Carr with the first pick in the 1971 draft, leaving Sidney Wicks to Portland — a story I had not heard.
If you would like to know more about Mania you can go to http://maniathefilm.blogspot.com/ or purchase the film at www.filmbaby.com.
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