"The fact is, a good portion of professional athletes—especially, it seems, the ones drafted by the Trail Blazers—don't have a real understanding of what it's like to have to obey rules and laws," Jaynes wrote. "They've been treated so specially, by fans, coaches, sportswriters and everyone else, that they don't know what it is to be treated like common citizens.…Just how important is it to you that our basketball team is a winning one? Important enough to compromise moral values? To lower the bar in terms of character of the players?"