Rob Simonsen

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Golden State Warriors. Depending on how Houston and Memphis fare this evening, the Blazers have a chance to punch their dance card for the playoffs, their third trip to the post-season in as many years. But first they’ll have to get through the […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Dallas Mavericks. We’re now six games away from the end of the regular season and the Playoff Speculation Bug is loose and more contagious than Justin Bieber spambots on Twitter. The Blazers are currently holding tight to a half-game lead over the Memphis […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Seattle Sonics Oklahoma City Thunder. The Thunder are currently riding a five game winning streak, and have been one of the NBA’s hottest teams since the All-Star break. Add in their 3-0 record over Portland this season—they’re going for the series sweep tonight—and […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the San Antonio Spurs. Much as it was when these two teams last met, the Spurs are still the best team in basketball, sporting a healthy six game lead over their nearest Western Conference opponents, the Los Angeles Lakers. With their big three playing […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Sacramento Kings. The Blazers come in riding a five game winning streak, one of those being an overtime victory over the lowly Kings last Wednesday. Tonight marks the official beginning of the Chris Johnson era in Portland, as he was recently recalled from […]

Live from the Rose Garden and the Portland Trail Blazers host the Indiana Pacers. The Blazers come in riding a four game winning streak, while the Pacers have dropped three in a row, and nine of their last twelve. Things are not going so well in Pacer land, and not just because they’re using Tyler […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Los Angeles Clippers. The Clippers come in having won six of their last seven contests, mostly due to Blake “Ginger Dynamite” Griffin. In the time it took me to write that last sentence, Griffin dunked on four people—his own teammate, two kids, and […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the sickly Orlando Magic. The Magic come in riding a two game losing streak, mostly due to the fact that a few of their key players—notably Dwight Howard and Jameer Nelson—have missed time after coming down with the stomach flu. A team ravaged by […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Phoenix Suns. Today, December 7th, is a date which will live in infamy: Andre Miller’s consecutive games played streak is coming to an end at a whopping 632. Miller earned a single game suspension after pretending to be a one-man wrecking ball against […]

Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Los Angeles Clippers in a game with playoff implications in the Western Conference a battle of basement dwellers. It has been a rough couple of weeks for Portland, who are in the midst of an absolutely ugly six game losing streak. Not only […]

Live from an ancient Indian burial ground the Rose Garden Arena as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Denver Nuggets. The big news of the moment is the loss of Greg Oden for the year as he undergoes microfracture surgery number two. Unless someone has a spare suitcase filled with adamantium lying around, this very […]