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Tuesday, Sep 29
Full Court Press: Media Day Edition
Brian T. Smith on Greg Oden. Patrick Mills will turn down lucrative offers from Europe as he attempts to force his way into the Portland Trail Blazers NBA squad. Joe Freeman with a summary of the summer and some brief thoughts from Kevin Pritchard. John Canzano on Greg Oden.
Don't Tease Us, Joe Freeman!
about : Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden hams it up for the camera while posing for photos during the Blazers' NBA basketball media day in Portland, Ore., Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Don Ryan) Browse more photos » Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
Wednesday, Sep 23
Maurice Lucas is Back
A 14-year NBA/ABA veteran and five-time All-Star, Lucas was a starting forward on the Trail Blazers 1977 NBA Championship team. He joined the Trail Blazers coaching staff in 2005 at the request of Head Coach Nate McMillan, a former teammate of Lucas when both were in Seattle during the 198...
Tuesday, Sep 22
Fan Fest Details
PORTLAND, Ore. - Fans will have their first opportunity to catch the 2009-10 Portland Trail Blazers in action when the team continues its popular annual preseason tradition - the Wells Fargo Fan Fest - on Sunday, Oct. 4, at the Rose Garden. Doors open at 5 p.m.
Saturday, Sep 19
Blazer Ticket Info
The team acquired guard Andre Miller on July 24, augmenting a nucleus led by Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge and Greg Oden. The Trail Blazers will also welcome back Martell Webster, who missed virtually the entire 2008-09 season because of injury.
Thursday, Sep 3
Blazers Sign Juwan Howard
TRAIL BLAZERS SIGN JUWAN HOWARD PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Trail Blazers have signed free agent forward Juwan Howard to a one-year contract, it was announced today by General Manager Kevin Pritchard. Per team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Friday, Aug 21
Prominent "Thunder" Blogger Admits Jealousy of Blazers
Who was Young's pick for second favorite team? That's right: the Portland Trail Blazers. The idea of a second favorite team for Oklahoma City fans is a ...
Monday, Jul 13
Hersey Hawkins Named Player Development Director
PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Trail Blazers have named Hersey Hawkins Player Development Director, General Manager Kevin Pritchard announced today. Hawkins partnered with Nate McMillan in the SuperSonics backcourt when Seattle took on the Chicago Bulls in the 1996 NBA Finals.
Saturday, May 30
All 82 Blazers Games to air in HD
TRAIL BLAZERS ANNOUNCE ‘ALL-HD' The Trail Blazers will air 60 games on Comcast SportsNet Northwest (CSNNW) and 15 on KGW Northwest NewsChannel 8. All KGW games will also be broadcast throughout the state on the Trail Blazers Television Network.
Thursday, Apr 16
Nuggets Media Row Report
When the Portland Trail Blazers closed the door on the 2008-2009 regular season, and closed the door on years of hitting the links in mid-April, I found myself in a dark tunnel, looking over the shoulder of a bubbly trail cat, watching as players, coaches, and spouses made the short, joyou...
Wednesday, Apr 15
Game 82 Recap: Blazers Clinch 4th Seed
The Portland Trail Blazers are back in the playoffs. And they got there in style, with a top four seed and an incredible run to end the season. It's far more than even the greediest fanboy could have wished for in mid-April of 2008. Celebrate, Portland. Celebrate hard.
Tuesday, Apr 14
Press Release Regarding Thursday Rally
The Blazers update their rally info: The Portland Trail Blazers currently have a record of 50-28, and are on pace for their best regular-season finish since the 1999-2000 season. On April 5, they clinched a playoff spot for the 27th time in their 39-year history.
Friday, Apr 10
John Wall The Future
Can you shoot with your left like Rasheed Wallace? When you look at the rafters here in the gym (Portland Trail Blazers Practice Facility) and you see banners with names like Clyde Drexler and Bill Walton, what goes through your mind? Have you seen this Blazers team play?
Wednesday, Apr 8
Game 78 Recap: Blazers 95, Spurs 83 (plus Jersey Contest Playoffs update)
More photos » by D. Clarke Evans - NBAE/Getty Images Holy...hopping...hornytoads. Blazers win. Blazers WIN!!! BOOM! Oden dunks back a Brandon Roy miss. KA-ZING! Brandon Roy makes a layup. This game marked the next cuts in the Jersey Contest playoffs. Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
Monday, Apr 6
The Latest Look at Playoff Seeding
Portland Trail Blazers Games Remaining: @Memphis, @San Antonio, L*kers, @Clippers, Oklahoma City, Denver Denver Nuggets San Antonio Spurs Houston Rockets Games Remaining: @Miami, Phoenix, @Dallas, Dallas, @Houston, @San Antonio Dallas Mavericks Dave (blazersub@yahoo.com)
Thursday, Apr 2
Kevin Pritchard - The Interview
There is no need for an introduction; here's the transcript of a telephone conversation I had this morning with Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Kevin Pritchard. My questions are bolded; Mr. Pritchard's answers are in blockquote. That's a question for Larry Miller.
Maurice Lucas to Miss Remainder of Season
Portland - Portland Trail Blazers assistant coach Maurice Lucas underwent successful bladder cancer surgery on Tuesday, the Trail Blazers announced today. Doctors anticipate a recovery period of 6-to-8 weeks. Lucas will not return to the bench for the remainder of the 2008-09 season.
The History of Blazer Blogging, Installment 1: An Interview from the Inside
Those jerseys really speak to the ethos we have in the office regarding being a Trail Blazer. When the public thinks about who the Portland Trail Blazers are, they think if the players, the coaches, the guys in the front office. But as an organization, we're all Trail Blazers, from the top dow...
Tuesday, Mar 31
Playoff Seeding Explained
In the example we just used the Blazers were seeded #4 by virtue of winning the division. The Rockets were seeded #5 and would face Portland. However Houston had 54 wins and Portland only 53, so the Rockets would have homecourt advantage in the series with Portland despite being the lower s...
Saturday, Mar 28
Grizzlies Media Row Report
Undaunted by the Grizzlies' firepower, the Blazers did something they haven't done all year, turning to Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge for the bulk of their scoring. Roy (21 / 8 / 4) and Aldridge (18 / 7 / 2) proved they were up to the challenge, carrying the Blazers to the nailbiting vict...
Friday, Mar 27
Game 72 Recap: Blazers 129, Suns 109
As far as game flow, Portland got off to a nice start. Phoenix was taking perimeter jumpers. Steve Nash was looking to pass instead of breaking down the defense. The Blazers, behind the energy of Nicolas Batum and the scoring of LaMarcus Aldridge, were collecting misses, pushing tempo, a...
Tuesday, Mar 17
Winners Again
You have to go back to the 2002-03 campaign and names like Wallace, Pippen, Randolph, Wells, Davis, Sabonis, and Stoudamire before you find as many wins as these Blazers have managed. If they do end up exceeding 50 you'd have to go back to the 1999-00 Western Conference Finals team--th...
Monday, Mar 16
Full Court Press
Dwight Jaynes had an interesting quote about Nic Batum last week. I was in the media room with just a few seconds remaining in the game with Kiki Vandeweghe, who is now in the Nets' front office. I asked him if he thought Batum, at 19 years old, was better than Vandeweghe thought he would be.
Thursday, Mar 12
Mavericks Media Row Report
Full credit to the Dallas Mavericks tonight who, despite being on the second leg of a road back-to-back, out-executed the Portland Trail Blazers throughout the 4th quarter to come away with a 93 to 89 road victory. Full credit to a short-handed Mavericks squad for beating the short-hand...
Thursday, Mar 5
Pacers Media Row Report
Joe Freeman typed them up again. So here's your link. Nate had an emotional statement about Nathan Vredevelt, a young man who was hit on Interstate 5. That's a must read. Also Nate had a funny response to a question about why he goes to Brandon Roy (and seemingly only Brandon Roy) down the st...
Tuesday, Feb 24
Paul Allen's Money Trouble
Lastly, definitely don't assume, like I did last week, that because this summer will be a bigger buyer's market than the trade deadline, that the Blazers will necessarily be buying. In fact, it's probably prudent to temper your expectations for the team's activity this summer. On Cour...
Tuesday, Jan 13
Blazers Edge Exclusive: Clyde Drexler Talks Blazers
Jerome Kersey. How about Jerome Kersey! How can you not put his name in the rafters? And then Kevin Duckworth! Think about it: if you've got Durant, Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge... [laughs] ... and you've got Przybilla at the center, you're still pretty good.
Friday, Jan 9
Blazers Edge Exclusive: Darius Miles's Agent Reacts to "The Letter"
I spoke by phone this afternoon with Darius Miles's agent, Jeff Wechsler, to get his reaction to the letter sent by the Portland Trail Blazers to all 30 NBA teams regarding potential legal action if a team were to sign Darius with the intent of mucking up Portland's salary cap situation.
Darius Miles Situation Explodes
As has been reported (and commented on near 1000 times, no exaggeration) in the sidebar an unnamed NBA team official has leaked a letter e-mailed to all NBA teams from the Portland Trail Blazers' Team President Larry Miller. Sports Illustrated had the story and now ESPN has picked it up....
Monday, Dec 29
Born's Corner: Rudy Fernandez
We are privileged to have the Portland Trail Blazers' Director of NBA Scouting Mike Born join us for another edition of our monthly feature, Born's Corner. Mike will spend some time with us each month talking about the players he's scouted who are now members of the team. This will give us a...
Friday, Dec 5
Opinion: Couple of Links
If you haven't been following the Portland Trail Blazers, it's time to stop calling yourself a basketball fan. As Jason Quick wrote in a story for the Oregonian, "The Trail Blazers have become the pick- your-poison team of the NBA, with a variety of weapons at their disposal to tease oppone...
Game 21 Preview: Blazers vs. Celtics
The easiest way to explain this matchup is to say that most things the Blazers do well the Celtics do at least a little bit better. The Blazers are 15th in the league in scoring at 98.7 ppg. The Celtics are 11th at 99.4. The Blazers are 7th in points allowed with 93.2 ppg. The Celtics are 1st at 90.3. T...
Wednesday, Nov 26
Born's Corner--Inaugural Edition
We are pleased and excited to announce that we've been able to tap one of the Trail Blazers' great basketball minds, Director of NBA Scouting Mike Born, to do a regular feature with us on Blazersedge. Once a month or so we're going to check in with Mike on the progress of some of our young play...
Thursday, Nov 13
Waiting and Watching
See, I remember 1978. No, I’m not botching up the Blazers’ championship year. That was 1977. I was a little kid then and as many of you know that was the first year I started watching basketball. I’ve never known basketball without the Blazers. I didn’t even know what the game was before I saw...
Tuesday, Nov 11
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: BLAZERS TO HONOR TERRY PORTER
TRAIL BLAZERS TO RETIRE #30 ... TWICE! PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Trail Blazers will raise jersey number 30 to the rafters not once, but twice, during December ceremonies to honor the Trail Blazers contributions of Terry Porter and Bobby Gross, the team announced today.
Thursday, Oct 23
Blazersedge Season Preview: The Final Chapter--Predictions
1 Boston Celtics 5 Cleveland Cavaliers 8 Chicago Bulls Cavaliers def. 76’ers Celtics def. Cavaliers Western Conference 4 San Antonio Spurs 5 Houston Rockets 6 Phoenix Suns 7 Dallas Mavericks 8 Portland Trail Blazers Hornets def. Mavericks Western Conference Finals NBA Finals
Wednesday, Oct 22
Portland Trail Blazers Season Preview Part 3: The Pivotal Pivot
Ninety percent of the discussion of the Portland Trail Blazers’ chances of success in 2008-09 revolves around their huge man in the middle, Greg Oden. He’s not likely to be the most productive player for the Blazers, nor the most consistent, nor the team leader, perhaps not even the most c...
Monday, Oct 20
Blazersedge 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: The Portland Trail Blazers
PORTLAND TRAIL BLAZERS Record: 41-41, 3rd Northwest Division, 10th in Western Conference Coach: Nate McMillan Key Players PG: Steve Blake, Sergio Rodriguez, Jerryd Bayless SG: Brandon Roy, Rudy Fernandez C: Greg Oden, Joel Przybilla
Saturday, Oct 18
Blogger Season Preview - Portland Trail Blazers
Portland Trail Blazers Key Losses: Jarrett Jack, James Jones, Darius Miles, Josh McRoberts, Von Wafer, Rehabbing Greg Oden Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs.
Wednesday, Sep 24
Season Opener Up In Air as Jackson Puts Off Basketballing
Kevin Pritchard rejected the call by Mr. Jackson, the Los Angeles Lakers' head coach, to delay the game, and Blazers officials noted that Mr. Jackson only made the offer after the Blazers reached out to their opponent asking them to issue a joint statement calling for increased transparen...
Thursday, Sep 18
Portland's Seeding Possibilities
Using the same common sense we applied to Phoenix and Dallas, it’s possible that one of these two turmoil teams could recover enough to stay ahead of Portland, though it might be by the slimmest of margins. It seems improbable that both will make the playoffs this year. This defines the low...
Wednesday, Sep 17
Blazer TV Schedule Released
Mike Barrett, nine-year veteran of the Trail Blazers broadcast team and author of the popular “Barrett’s Blog” on trailblazers.com, will mark his sixth season as television play-by-play announcer, while Mike Rice enters his fourth season as television commentator and 19th overall a...
Saturday, Aug 30
Blazers Press Release: Duckworth Scholarship
PORTLAND, Ore. – In partnership with The Oregon Community Foundation, the Portland Trail Blazers have established the Kevin Duckworth Memorial Scholarship Fund, Trail Blazers President Larry Miller announced today. Portland, OR 97205
Wednesday, Aug 27
Beard Man For The Win!
TRAIL BLAZERS SIGN JACKSON, HILL AND TATUM PORTLAND, Ore. - The Portland Trail Blazers signed forward Luke Jackson, rookie center Steven Hill and rookie guard Jamaal Tatum, General Manager Kevin Pritchard announced today. Terms of the contracts were not disclosed.
Thursday, Jul 31
Sherman Alexie Needs Our Help
61. And hey, I live just a few minutes from Brandon Roy's childhood home and high school, and I taught the man in college, so I think I can justify rooting for him and his Blazers. And Portland is coached by Mr. Sonic, Nate McMillan, and owned by Paul Allen, and—ah, hell, I'm a hoops junkie, man, an...
Saturday, Jul 26
BlazersEdge.com Exclusive: Mike Golub Loves You
Blazersedge.com: Are you new duties set in stone? Between the Blazers, Seahawks and now the Seattle Sounders Paul Allen owns 3 teams In the past there has been some coordination between , some synergy, but we've only just scratched the surface on how best the three teams can work together,...
Sunday, Jul 6
It's Time to Move On
In a recent interview with HoopsWorld.com writer Wendell Maxey, The Portland Tribune's Kerry Eggers was asked for his thoughts regarding blogs. As recently as last week, on this very blog, I commended Eggers for an "insightful" piece on the developing sports radio battle between 95.5FM...
Friday, Jun 13
Trade Evaluator
The Charlotte Hornets trade the rights to the #9 overall pick (at the time this was suggested the player was unspecified...you can see the players that were left on the board in the Mock Draft thread) to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for the #13 overall pick (also unspecified) and g...
Blazer GM Reflections
We started with the Pacers Danny Granger. But as GM Larry Bird put it "the one team [he] wouldn't trade Granger to was the Portland Trail Blazers." Our quest moved on to Pistons reserve Point Guard Rodney Stuckey, who was a part of a four-team trade that sent Rasheed Wallace to Philadelphia an...
Blazersedge Mock Draft
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the 2008 Blazersedge Mock Draft. Watch this space all day as the draft evolves, and don't forget that you will soon vote to help determine which player the Portland Trail Blazers select! 4. Jerryd Bayless, 6'3" PG/SG, Arizona
Tuesday, May 27
Imaginary Chad Ford Mock Draft, circa 1983
The Blazers get good production from their front court starters, including SF Calvin Natt (instant offense to the tune of 20 ppg), and PF Mychal Thompson (young and super talented, tremendous upside) but remain relatively thin on the front line. C Wayne Cooper and F Kenny Carr round out...
Wednesday, May 14
Conversation with OSU Coach Craig Robinson
You might remember: a few weeks back Oregon State Coach Craig Robinson joined Channing Frye and James Jones at an event in NE Portland called "Hoops for Change." Coach Robinson was helping get out the vote for his brother-in-law, Senator Barack Obama, but he was also starting to get himse...
Sunday, Apr 13
Interview with Chris Bowles, Part II
Welcome to Part II of our interview with Chris Bowles, Director of Player Programs for the Portland Trail Blazers. To read part I, click here. Blazersedge: I heard Jarrett Jack watches that show. I went to school in Baltimore. Blazersedge: People go both ways. Blazers have gone both ways.
Interview with Chris Bowles, Part II
Blazersedge: I heard Jarrett Jack watches that show. I went to school in Baltimore. Say no more, you know what it is. Yeah Jarrett, Travis, Brandon, Martell, they all watch it. James Jones doesn't watch it too much because he has the little ones, but yeah, we watch the Wire. That was the topic o...
Thursday, Apr 10
Interview with Chris Bowles
Blazersedge: Please describe how you came to work for the Portland Trail Blazers. Blazersedge: That line of advice seems to be directly in line with the talk of a changed "culture" that General Manager Kevin Pritchard has talked so much about.
Tuesday, Apr 1
I Like Dreamin'
It all comes down to this, fans. They defeated the Denver Nuggets in the first round. They stunned the favored Los Angeles Lakers in the second round. They barely squeaked by the Utah Jazz in the Western Conference finals. And now the young Portland Trail Blazers again find themselves on t...
