The following interview with the late, great Jerome Kersey, conducted by Rick Metsger, appeared in the April 1993 edition of Rip City Magazine
If he were ever a construction worker, Jerome Kersey would probably be the only man on the job without need of a hard hat. Stubborn, hard-headed, driven -- just three of the words that have been used to describe the playing style of the Blazers powerful small forward.
It has been his relentless pursuit of success that has taken Kersey from a future in a Virginia textile mill, and placed him, instead, in the glow of the NBA limelight.