Channing Frye's Blog
10Jul/0984

Glad to be home

Glad to be with the Phoenix Suns!

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  1. Welcome Home Channing!!!

  2. congrats man

  3. Congrats, Channing.

    I’ll be cheering for you when you come back to Portland. Unless, of course, you start really burning us. Glad you could land in a good system. Good luck.

  4. We’ll miss you here in Portland and wish you all the best! We’ll be rooting for your success and hope you’ll come back to Portland whether it’s on the court or in the broadcasting booth. :)

  5. we’ll miss you in Portland and South Waterfront. you always have a home here man. Best of luck in Phoenix!

  6. You’ll be missed in Portland! Glad you found a great city and organization to be with though!

  7. Congratulations Channing. Of course, I wished you could have stayed in Portland, but what a great place for you to end up!

  8. Congrats, sometimes things work out. We will miss you Mr. Portland, hope you get some major playing time in PHX and tear it up!!

  9. Channing! My dad just called me and told me about you playing for the Phoenix Suns! I’m so excited for you… shoot me an email when you get a chance. You’ll always just be the kid that used to sit next to me & make fun of me in Biology class… good times… :) holly@azpetservices.com

  10. Congratulations! You will be missed. Portland just got a little less weird with the loss :-)

  11. Welcome back big man.

  12. Good luck bro.

  13. Good Move!Make PHX a contender this year

  14. Rock out with your socks out.

  15. Yo… Channing
    Welcome back to the Valley of the Sun, back to your roots, St. Mary’s, U of A and now our beloved Suns…

    All the Best… Joe, Dulce, Mychal & Trevor Fernandez

    Come back and tear it up with our new and improved Suns…

  16. Hey man, have a great time!! I’m really happy for you…don’t get too caught up in the Amare ego though…I’ve heard it’s pretty suffocating. Now, go kiss your momma and sleep in your old bed for a few nights. Don’t be a stranger to P-town either, you know we’re your home away from home!

  17. Congrats, Channing! I was hoping that this would happen!! :)

  18. Hey Channing,
    You will be missed in PDX. Hope you shine in Phoenix, but come home to PDX when you’re done. Best Wishes!

  19. Glad to see your coming to Phoenix. goood luck next season. Welcome to Phoenix.

  20. Congrats, Channing. We’ll look forward to seeing you back in Portland when the Suns come to town.

    Take it easy on Amare during practice, OK? :)

  21. Yay!! :D Congratulations Channing!! You will do amazingly in Arizona, I know it!! Still sad to see you go, who will I get Portland restaurant recommendations from? ;)

  22. Channing,

    I watched you destroy my beloved Brophy Broncos and never thought I’d say how happy I am to have you headed back to the AZ. Now you can keep blogging about the best local joints. The 602 has changed since you left bro, it’s getting better all the time:

    Lola Coffee, Le Grand Orange, Los Reyes de La Torta etc. you’ll like being home.

  23. Nice! Excited to see you at US Airways! U of A! U of A!

  24. welcome aboard man!

  25. Good luck in Phoenix Channing!

  26. Channing,
    I am so sorry to see you go. I am glad you landed with a good team, but i was so hopeful you would still be a Blazer. You will be missed. Do well, stay healthy and make the Blazers pay big time if they want you back in a year or so.

  27. Welcome back dude!!!
    I hope they give you more playin time with suns so you could tear it up!!!
    I’m excited with our team this year.. tell lamar odom to jump ship and grind it out with us!!! Go PHX!!!

  28. Blazer legend, always. Hope you come back someday.

  29. What a great twist of events. You’re totally loved here, and now you get to go back home. You make fate look effortless. Good job here and good luck there. Get ready for the screaming and shouting when you come back through the Rose Garden in Purple and Orange.

  30. Channing welcome back home ! We have been routing and praying for you since you left SM, and your successes at the U, and on thru the the Pro’s. And now to be with the SUNS ! They have yet to realize the impact you will have on the upcoming season ! Man, are we proud of you !
    John & Sandi Comeau, Class of ‘64
    St. Mary’s
    GO KNIGHTS ! and GO CHANNING… AND THE SUNS !

  31. Cuz,

    I must confess that I was kinda hoping you’d end up a little bit further East :-) but, Oh Well!

    I’m impressed with the name you’ve made for yourself in Portland and I have every confidence that you will do equally well in the Phoenix Community.

    Continued success to you and we’ll “C-ya when ya get here”.

    Cuz Pete

  32. you’re going to need to airlift some rain in :P we’ll miss ya dude. You’ll always get a large ovation when you come to town. Peace love and chicken grease. And grats on the wedding!!!!! you’re the best NBA to media/fans relations guy ever.

  33. Wow! what a great MOVE! Phoenix made a WINNING MOVE. You should really do will with that style of basketball. A Great player on and off the court! I’m now a PHOENIX/FRYE Fan!
    Good Luck!

  34. I was bummed to see my fav team didn’t bring you back, but I was really excited to see my second fav pick you up. I hope you enjoy the Suns, I know they will enjoy you and your game.

  35. We are soooooo excited to have you back in PHOENIX! Can’t wait to see you play with the SUNS!! When can we get YOUR jersey?? We (PHOENIX) have been waiting for you to come back and play ball. WELCOME HOME! So glad that you left PORTLAND! The town is talking…
    You have alot of FANS IN PHOENIX!

  36. well, its good for phoenix, bad for you. the lottery won’t be as fun as the playoff team you had!

  37. Good luck in Phoenix, Channing. Portland will miss you. You’re always welcome here. Come on back during the off-season … PDX sun is better than Phoenix sun … in the summer, anyhow. :)

  38. Welcome to the valley! Now show ‘em what you’re made of! (from a fellow U of A alum)

  39. Congratulations Channing!

  40. Congrats Channing – nice place to end up! I know you will do great there. Portland will miss you!
    If it gets to hot, you can always come back.
    -Jeremy

  41. I’m glad to see a happy ending on this saga for you. You’ve always been the epitomy of “class” in a sometimes classless league, so it’s great to see you going from one city that loves you to another with the same feeling.

  42. You are gonna shine in this gig!

  43. Dear Channing: You were so charming as to talk with me at the Fan Appreciation Party this spring. Our meeting solidified my enthusiasm for you, as we we discussed your mother’s Phoenix art gallery and also our mutual reactions to “do you want fries/fryes with that?” which you said had been pelted at you since 2nd grade. All these blog comments are testimony to the fine impression you made during your too-short stay in Portland–the team star in the ways that count in a serious world. As one of your much-older fans, I was apprehensive that things would end as they have for your Portland career, but I’m sure your return home will be joyful. Your “Suns” fans are already pretty giddy that you’re back with them. It will be exciting to see you at the Rose Garden this coming year: you’ll be vigorously welcomed back by the PDX locals, as you can probably tell already.
    All good wishes in your career and of course in your forthcoming marriage. Ellin Johnson

  44. Well Frye, Why so many folks admire you is that we all see thru the business aspect of the game. We want to see you on the court. Alot of folks really like the way you play when given the opportunity. And now you have the opportunity, can’t wait until you get back to those double, doubles, your fans know that you can, now show the rest. Finally, I don’t know of any NBA Player that has received as much LOVE as you did WHEN leaving a TEAM! Could you image if that crazy Portland Coach actually let you play for more than a second. Well, it’s their lost, were excited to have you back in the VALLEY! The Suns did a great job in getting you BACK! Now lets play some ball!

  45. Portland just got a tad dimmer with loosing you in this city. Wishing you the best of luck with your new team (for all games but those against Portland). I will be cheering for you when you come back to visit. Stay classy Mr. Frye and please don’t be a stranger.

  46. Channing – Congratulations on your return to Phoenix!!! If you need a good insurance man, I’m right across the street… Mark Hester

  47. Welcome back, for sure! As an Arizona Alum and Suns Fan living in the Valley, I was so pleased to hear this news. Simply awesome!

  48. The city of Portland lost one of its finest.

    I’ll cheer you from section 323 when you return to the RG this winter.

  49. Finally, a U of A player on the Suns! Go Channing! We’ll make the drive to come watch you play!
    Best of luck.


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