Rob Simonsen

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers take on the Oklahoma City Thunder. The Blazers are riding high after knocking off the NBA-leading Indiana Pacers on Monday, an instant classic that cemented Portland’s status in the upper echelon of the league. And while that game was indeed a high water mark, tonight’s […]

Live from the Entertainment 720 headquarters Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the NBA-leading Indiana Pacers. The Blazers return home after splitting a pair of games on the road, losing again in Phoenix and narrowly squeaking out a win against the Lakers. And whew, last night’s game at the Staples Center was a […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the New York Knickerbockers. Much like Parker Lewis before them, the Blazers just can’t freaking lose. Portland took home another victory in Saturday night’s contest against Golden State, and their winning streak is now up to ten in a row. Ten! The knock on […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Chicago Bulls. What’s that? Oh, just eight wins in a row—including four straight on the road—for the red hot Blazers. They inexplicably find themselves with the third best record in the entire league, a high water mark that nobody would have predicted for […]

Live from the Moda Center, as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Phoenix Suns. The Suns were not supposed to be this good. Coming into the season most analysts had them pegged as one of the five worst teams in the league, and that was before they went and traded starting center Marcin Gortat to […]

Live from the Moda Center, as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Detroit Pistons. The Blazers come in riding a two game winning streak. Funny what playing the Kings back to back can do for a team. While Portland was able to come away with two easy victories on Friday and Saturday, DeMarcus Cousins shredded […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Sacramento Kings. It has been a decade since the Kings were the most exciting team in the league, and their fanbase has been made suffer through some horrible stretches. The Kings are one of two teams, along with the Minnesota Timberwolves, to have […]

Live from the Moda Center, as the Portland Trail Blazers host the 2013 Beard Olympics Houston Rockets. In two years, the Rockets have turned themselves from a mediocre team full of desirable assets into a legit championship contender. The reason? Houston was able to acquire James Harden, a top ten talent in the NBA, for […]

Live from the Rose Garden Moda Center, as the Portland Trail Blazers host the NBA champion San Antonio Spurs. It’s an exciting new year for Portland, chock full of unfamiliar faces, rising optimism, and playoff aspirations. (/checks schedule.) Wait—the Blazers lost to the actively tanking Suns to start the season?! Yep, here we go again. […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Anaheim Sacramento Kings! Get ready for some tired, sloppy basketball, as both teams come into tonight having played their first game of the season less than twenty-four hours ago. The Blazers knocked off the 76ers (as quasi-chronicled here) while the Kings defeated the […]

Live from the Rose Garden, it’s the Mercury’s thirty-second annual Disney On Ice live blog extravaganza!! (Checks notes.) Oh, wait, scratch that. It looks like Santa finally received one of my letters—I’m still waiting for that pony though, fat man—and ended the basketball lockout for Christmas. Those interested in whether or not Jiminy Cricket can […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the two-time defending champion Los Angeles Lakers. The Lakers have not swept a season series from Portland since the 1988-89 season, yet that’s just what they’re shooting to do tonight. One more win would make Los Angeles 4-0 on the season against the Blazers. […]