The following is excerpted from Jail Blazers: How the Portland Trail Blazers Became the Bad Boys of Basketball. Copyright © 2018 by Kerry Eggers.
For nine years, Stephanie Smith-Leckness served as a flight attendant on Paul Allen’s private jet, which flew the Trail Blazers to all their road games.
“I truly loved a lot of the people who were part of the Trail Blazer organization through those years—people like Brian Wheeler, Jeff Curtin, Geoff Clark, Bobby Medina, Mike Rice, Kim Anderson,” says Smith-Leckness, who flew with the Blazers from 1997–2006. “The players would change, but a lot of the same people—trainers, coaches, TV and radio people—they remained.