With The #10 Pick In The 2013 NBA Draft, The Portland Trail Blazers…Pass
With the NBA draft but a few weeks away, I offer you the following preview: No one.
That’s right, after countless minutes scouring Google for profiles, “mocks,” and opinions regarding this year’s crop of future NBA role players, I’ve concluded that our Portland Trail Blazers have little-to-no chance of filling their necessary voids via this season’s rookie lottery...
Thoughts On Possible New Portland Trail Blazer Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Around this same time last year, I started liking two guys that I thought would be great pieces for the Portland Trail Blazers. Those two guys were Damian Lillard and Meyers Leonard.
Leonard and Lillard had great workouts and interviews for Portland. Both of them seemed to be a great fit for Portland. With today’s game being a guard’s league, Portland was in dire need of...
Portland Trail Blazers must improve NBA’s worst bench this off-season
With a talented starting five, the Portland Trail Blazers should have been more competitive this past season. However, the team boasted a bench made up of rookies, former first round draft pick busts, and journeymen veterans that provided no relief for the starters. Priority number one this NBA off-season for Portland; up-grade their talent on the bench.
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The Portland Trail Blazers And The NBA Draft: Keep Calm And Carry On
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall Of Fame has inducted and honored 152 players and counting. Of that number, just six have played for the Portland Trail Blazers and four were actually drafted by the team.
Long story short, the Trail Blazers do not have the best of luck when it comes to drafting players. But you knew that. And if you didn't, welcome to Portland, newcomer...
The national media predicts the Portland Trail Blazers draft…
Mock drafts galore
The 2013 NBA offseason is going to be a big one for the Portland Trail Blazers. With money to spend, free agency will be a hot topic around PDX, but with the draft lottery up first, the focus is on rookie prospects and which player will best fit come June.
In today’s day and age of social media and the ever-expanding blogosphere, everybody and their mother has...
Tips Portland should follow if they want to make 2014 Playoffs
The Road Map
The Portland Trail Blazers didn’t have a bad season, but it wasn’t that great either.
Here are my exclusive top-5 tips for the Portland Trail Blazers making the 2014 NBA Playoffs, enjoy.
Have Nikola Pekovic sign an offer sheet worth top dollar to force the Minnesota Timberwolves to pay him. Like they did with Nicolas Batum last off-season? Yes. Just like that...
Oregon Sports News Roundtable: Portland Trail Blazers Offseason
The Portland Trail Blazers tripped, crawled, and skidded their way to a 33-46 record to close out the 2012-13 campaign, losing twice as many games as they won since the all-star break. While wholesale changes may or may not be necessary, the Blazers' efforts and lack of success this season absolutely raised some eyebrows around the league, and assuredly in the Rose City, where...
Time For Portland Trail Blazer Fans To Be General Managers
The sports landscape has been completely transformed by the prominence of fantasy sports. I have written about it before and I fully believe that it is a great thing for sports. The National Football League has greatly benefited from the popularity of gambling and fantasy sports. All factors considered, the NFL is the most popular sports league in the country, by far.
However...
Start of Free Agency: Where Does Portland Go From Here?
Despite an end to the season that saw the Portland Trail Blazers seemingly lose the will to go on, the season was not a loss. The team performed above expectations for most of the year, and Damian Lillard showed an ability to dominate on offense in just his first year in the league. Between Lillard, Wesley Matthews, Nic Batum and LaMarcus Aldridge, the team has a strong core...
Grading Portland Trail Blazers GM Neil Olshey’s 2012-13 season
How did he do?
Being the Portland Trail Blazers GM is never an easy job. Fans in PDX have watched Kevin Pritchard and Rich Cho come and go over the past few years, and the 2011-12 season actually saw the position stay vacant from beginning to end.
But with Neil Olshey in town, things have begun to turn around. A few key moves were made, and the future has become clearer despite...
Portland Trailblazers: 12 Striaght Losses, But Their Rookies Are Looking Excellent
The Portland Trailblazers have now lost 12 straight games and while they once had slim hopes at the playoffs, they simply fell off a cliff in the final month. All Star LaMarcus Aldridge, Wes Matthews and Nicolas Batum have all missed games during the losing streak, which has been a factor, but they have simply played poor basketball. Despite the losses, there have been some positives...
State of the PDX Rookies
In another game played without All-Star LaMarcus Aldridge, the Blazers were over-matched by the Memphis Grizzlies. Nicolas Batum also sat out with an arm injury. Memphis was simply too big, too aggressive, and just flat out better than Portland.
How the Portland Trail Blazers rookies faired last night
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Grizzlies 94, Trail Blazers 76
Mike Conley scored 20 points and the Memphis Grizzlies set a franchise record for wins in a season with a 94-76 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night.
With four straight wins, Memphis improved to 51-24, surpassing its 50-win season in 2003-04. The Grizzlies have already clinched a spot in the playoffs and are jockeying for home-court advantage in the first round...
Portland Trail Blazers Stumble To The Finish Line
Everyone has at least one opportunity in their life to eat a little crow, and today is my time. Certainly not the first and most likely not the last time I will dine on the delicacy that is crow. In my post last week I stated that the Blazers making a last dash for the playoffs would be positive. I argued that the Blazers knocking the Lakers out of the playoffs would be more satisfying...
Portland Trail Blazers Still Scraping For Wins
However faint the Portland Trail Blazers hopes for a playoff berth may be, the fact of the matter is they are still in the discussion. Following the NBA All-Star break, I wrote that this last stretch of games would demonstrate who on this season’s roster had the grit and fight to scrap for wins. As it turns out there are a number of Blazers that possess said intangibles. There...
The Price Of Victory
Portland continues their up and down play. It is mind boggling how they can beat playoff teams on the road yet lose to lottery teams at home. They seem to defy odds while playing with a shallow bench that continues to get more and more shallow. Friday night Coach Terry Stotts played a seven-man rotation with Meyers Leonard and Erik Maynor came off the bench in the surprising...
Know the Schedule March 18-24: Portland plays five games this week
The Portland Trail Blazers play five games this week. That's the good news. The bad news: All five games are on the road. Still, if I'm in a head-to-head league, I'm happy to play the usual suspects -- Nicolas Batum, LaMarcus Aldridge, Damian Lillard, Wesley Matthews and J.J. Hickson -- even if they play only four games. Eric Maynor and Meyers Leonard haven't been...
Portland Trail Blazers: Plan For The Future, Stop Living In The Now
No self-respecting fan wants to hear that their team should pack it in. And yet that is exactly what will best benefit Portland's beloved Trail Blazers.
With 10 games left to play, and trailing five games behind the #8 seeded Los Angeles Lakers, things look bleak to say the least for the Portland Trail Blazers and their collective playoff hopes.
Six of the 10 remaining...
Portland Trail Blazers vs. New Orleans Hornets prediction and preview
From the best to the worst
The Portland Trail Blazers shocked everybody when they took down the San Antonio Spurs 136-106 Friday night, and it’s become clear that this team isn’t going down without a fight.
Matchup: Portland (29-32) @ New Orleans (21-42)
Venue: New Orleans Arena
Time: 4:00 PM PT
Date: Sunday, March 10, 2013
The playoffs are still a long shot with a tough schedule...
Portland Trail Blazers Bench: Who Should Stay And Who Should Go?
The second half of the season is off to an exciting start for the Portland Trail Blazers. Well, not if you’re tracking the team strictly by wins and losses. Then the 3-4 mark they’ve shown is about on par with the rest of the season.
But if you’ve spent time watching this team and have seen the way it’s progressing and evolving, you’ve got to be excited about the way...
Rick’s picks week 18: The weekly Portland Trail Blazers’ all-stars
Top Blazers
After slowly watching their record dip well below the .500 mark, the Portland Trail Blazers finally started getting back to some winning basketball.
Even though the previous week saw a split (a loss to Denver, then a win against Minnesota), one aspect of Portland’s game is incredibly different; that change lies with the play of the Blazer bench.
Putting up league worst...
Slow And Steady: Is Meyers Leonard Ready To Play Some Ball?
The Portland Trail Blazers might have literally hit the jackpot in the lottery this year. Landing Damian Lillard with the number six overall selection in this year’s lottery section of the NBA Draft couldn’t have worked out better for all parties involved. Lillard went to a team that desperately needed a point guard, and that’s probably an understatement. Without him, the Trail...
Trail Blazers 122, Bobcats 105
LaMarcus Aldridge had 23 points and 14 rebounds, and the Portland Trail Blazers handed the Charlotte Bobcats their seventh straight loss with a 122-105 victory on Monday night.
Nicolas Batum and Damian Lillard each finished with 20 points for the Blazers, who had seven players in double figures and shot nearly 60 percent from the field. Meyers Leonard, Portland's 7-foot rookie...
Meyers Leonard Dunks On Iguodala
When the Portland Trailblazers drafted Meyers Leonard, they had high hopes that he would end up as more of a success than the last time they put hopes in a big man; Greg Oden.
Leonard had a nice effort in a loss against the Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night, posting 13 points and 5 rebounds on 4-7 shooting. The highlight of his night was certainly this emphatic dunk over Andre Iguodala...
Meyers Leonard Dunks on Andre Miller. Pounds His Chest For Dunking On Old Person (Video)
The Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets are competing in a thriller Wednesday night, that is a back-and-forth game; it was Meyers Leonard that had the highlight play. Leonard dunks on Andre Miller, but it was his celebrating afterwards that was pretty funny. I don’t know….seems he got pretty excited…a bit too excited. The post Meyers Leonard Dunks on Andre Miller...
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