“He told me how to use the paint roller and which way to paint making sure it was all in one direction,” Powell remembers. “He told me how to lay down the blue painters tape on the edge of the walls and it was really precise on how is was supposed to go, making sure I had it laid straight.”Īnd when you got to the actual painting, the details still mattered. “I was trying to figure out how to paint and he’d be on me about details of the paint.”ĭetails like how the best paint jobs are really the best prep jobs. Powell remembers being 10, maybe 11 years old, and driving around with Raymond while he went on jobs for the painting business he owned, RCP Painting. “He was like my dad, giving me game, teaching me how to be a man, giving me the responsibility of being the man of the house at a really young age. He instilled some good qualities in me and characteristics just of being a man.” Norman Powell grew up in San Diego, California. His parents separated when he was an infant so it’s his mom and his late Uncle Raymond, who Powell says was “like a father to him,” who he credits for raising him. Work is something Powell is ready for, in fact he relishes it.Īnd it all started with a lesson in painting. “Everybody wants it so now it’s just about doing all the work to get there.”
“We’re committed,” Powell said of his team. He chose the Blazers not in spite of that, but because of that. It would require a commitment to the little things, that could lead to big things, including a championship few would see coming.
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When he was being courted by multiple teams in free agency, he knew a path to a title that went through Portland would be far from an easy one. Norman Powell knew all these things this summer. They’ve been stuck in one way, playing one brand of basketball, so really breaking those old habits and picking up a new style of play and making that your every day, you know there’s going to be some ups and downs in trying to do that.” “Obviously, there’s going to be some rough patches, you’re bringing in a whole new coaching staff, you’re trying to learn how they want to do things, especially for those guys. Powell said as much earlier in training camp. After the game, Billups, Lillard, McCollum and center Jusuf Nurkic, the only players made available, echoed a similar sentiment setting out to do what they want to do this season is going to be a process, it will take time.
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