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Why The Trail Blazers are heading back to the playoffs

Found October 28, 2008 on Rip City Project:
PLAYERS: Greg Oden,  Brandon Roy,  LaMarcus Aldridge
TEAMS: Portland Trail Blazers

We promised you a gigantic Blazers preview of epic proportions, so we're going to give you a gigantic preview of epic proportions. SJ and I spent two evenings just talking about various aspects of the team and I've cleaned up the results for you below, which means there's 4,500 words just waiting for you, and that's cut down from the actual conversation . Looking back, if we had podcast equipment, we might have done it that way. But we don't, so call us old-school.
Original Story: http://www.ripcityproject.com/2008/10...
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