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In a scene all too familiar to Blazers fans, Portland came up short while on the road, falling 93-89 to the Utah Jazz last night. In a scene all too familiar to Blazers fans, a Portland player left the game with a horrifying knee injury. But other than those things, how was your Monday? Nicolas […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Los Angeles Lakers to town. Oh look, I’m back. Three months in fat camp—the whole “opening a bar” thing was to save the embarrassment of my crippling fudge addiction going public—and I’m ready to get back on the blogging horse. And my, what […]

After yesterday’s “done deal” Dwight-Howard-to-Jersey-Gerald-Wallace-to-Orlando-lots-‘o-draft-picks-to-Portland trade fell apart, the final remaining free agency blip on the Blazers’ radar will likely be addressed today. Jamal Crawford, the gifted offense weapon and former Sixth Man of the Year winner, is supposed to decide today which team he will call home in 2011-12 and beyond: Sacramento or Portland. […]

Bye, Bye, Crash? Playoffs? Lottery? The Portland Trail Blazers want the former, but following last Friday’s sudden announcement that Brandon Roy is hanging up the sneakers for good and that Greg Oden is a walking (or, sitting) cadaver, the latter option seems far more likely. The best way to avoid a prolonged slump that propels […]

Barring his holiness David Stern vetoing the trade for “basketball reasons,” the Blazers have inked a deal with veteran big man Kurt Thomas to a two year deal. The only athlete that can make Marcus Camby look spry, the 39-year-old Thomas is the oldest player in the NBA, closer in age to head coach Nate […]

Getty Images Bye, Bye, Brandon Sorry for not posting this earlier, I’ve had a difficult morning. News is leaking out that Brandon Roy, the very face of the Portland Trail Blazers franchise, is retiring effective immediately. This is a shocking (SHOCKING!) decision, especially since the Blazers front office went on record this past Monday stating […]

All killer, slightly less than usual filler. The strike-shortened 2011-12 NBA schedule is jam-packed with game-after-game-game, with very little rest in between. For us fans it’s great, but perhaps it’s not so grand for the oft-injured, depth-challenged, Portland Trail Blazers. Their 66-game schedule (after the jump) is riddled back-to-back games and even a handful of […]

Pop that jersey, Raymond Felton! Step off the ledge, Blazers fan. The evil suits at the NBA’s corporate office and the (slightly less) evil Players Association have come to terms on a tentative agreement that will end the ridiculous five-month old lockout that has robbed us all of professional basketball. Like the greatest gift ever […]

Crap. “We are about to enter the nuclear winter of the NBA”—David Stern, NBA commissioner/man who says really dramatic things to freak out basketball fans. The 2011-12 NBA season is (most likely) over. Oh great, another year where Greg Oden didn’t do a damn thing. This morning the NBA players rejected the owners’ last ditch […]