Rob Simonsen

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Washington Wizards. It was announced on Thursday that LaMarcus Aldridge would miss six to eight weeks with a torn ligament in his thumb. Everything was awful—Portland lost in heartbreaking fashion to the Celtics, Nicolas Batum reaggravated his wrist injury, and after a promising […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Boston Celtics. So this has to be the most traffic the Wikipedia page for thumbs has seen since, well, ever. All that’s known at this point about LaMarcus Aldridge’s thumb injury is he’s wearing a cast, he needs to undergo further testing once […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Sacramento Kings. The Blazers are in the midst of their first three-game losing streak of the season. They had three games against Western Conference playoff squads, two of which were on the road, and the Blazers responded to the tough slate by, sigh, […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Los Angeles Clippers. It’s Damian Lillard’s world and we’re all just lucky enough to walk the same ground. My goodness, what a couple of days for the Dame Show. He broke the internet by dunking all over the Lakers, then followed that up […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Orlando Magic. Another year, another rebuild for the Magic as they search for an identity in a post-Dwight Howard world. There are pieces here—squint hard enough and you can see the rough outline of an athletic, defensive-minded squad—but they’re still a couple of […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Miami Heat. Make that the LeBron James-less Miami Heat. Did you hear that LeBron left Miami to return home to Cleveland? I’m not sure if they’ve really mentioned it in the media that much, so it might come as a bit of a […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Los Angeles Lakers. We cut now, live to a view of this Lakers season and…oh. Oh no. It seems this dumpster is going to be burning for some time. Watching this team implode has been a delight. Every day there’s a new story […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Atlanta Hawks. Well, that was one hell of a 2014 for the Blazers. Not only did they end last season with one of the most iconic moments in franchise history, they also managed to jump out to the second-best record in the league […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Toronto Raptors. Break out the lint rollers! After slogging through two duds against the Knicks and 76ers, the Blazers are back at it against the top squad in the Eastern Conference. Finally, some real competition. The Blazers and Raptors are very similar teams. […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the New York Knickerbockers. Oh, the Knicks. The terrible, horrible, no good, very bad Knicks. This team is a dumpster fire, off to their worst start in franchise history. Clubbing baby seals is more enjoyable than watching Carmelo Anthony jack up twenty-foot jumpers. The […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Philadelphia 76ers. All I wanted for Christmas was for the Blazers to survive their toughest road trip of the season, and goodness did Santa Dame deliver. Going 3-1 against the Spurs, Pelicans, Rockets, and Thunder is one thing, but capping things off with […]

Live from the Moda Center as the Portland Trail Blazers host the San Antonio Spurs. Most of the Spurs, that is. Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili, and Tiago Splitter are all getting the Coach Pop treatment, resting on the pine for the second night of a back-to-back. The Spurs that annihilated the Blazers in […]