BlazersEdge Last season’s playoff tickets. Now that the team is officially in the postseason, this means the Portland Trail Blazers want a piece of your tax refund… TICKETS TO FIRST TWO HOME PLAYOFF GAMES TO GO ON SALE APRIL 15Portland clinches playoff berth for second consecutive season PORTLAND, Ore. — Available tickets for the Portland […]
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Blazers vs Knicks – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the New York Knicks. The Knickerbockers, from the Island of Manhattan, are less a basketball team and more a lobbyist group hellbent on wooing future free agent LeBron James to their city. Wins, loses, it doesn’t really matter, they just want LeBron. Portland just […]
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The Blazers Will Make the Playoffs Tonight…
…if they beat the New York Knicks and both the Houston Rockets and Memphis Grizzlies lose their respective games. It’s very possible—especially since the Rockets are in San Antonio against a desperate Spurs teams and Memphis is playing Dallas—and for the Blazers to clinch on their homecourt would be a nice way to wrap up […]
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Hot, Sticky Lube Wrestling
For their spring fundraising event, the Oregon Sports Union Women’s Rugby League stripped down and lubed up for some lubricant-based wrestling at the Dixie Tavern on Friday. Erotic? Yes. Terrifying? It was—but only if they won’t kick my ass for saying so. In a series of rounds lasting 45 seconds each, the girls turned against […]
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Your Daily Blazer
#pdxboom? More like #pdxboomshakalaka! In one of the more important games in the past few months, the Portland Trail Blazers knocked off the Oklahoma City Thunder in impressive fashion, 92-87. The road victory gave Portland a temporary tiebreaker with OKC (the two teams met again on April 12th, this time at the Rose Garden), and […]
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Sometimes People Can Be a Bit Too “Extreme”
I’m not saying it’s not really impressive! I guess I’m just saying… maybe you can turn the “extreme” down a skootch? Hat tips to Anthony!
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Blazers vs Mavericks – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Dallas Mavericks. Could this game be a preview of the opening round of the Western Conference playoffs? It’s quite possible, and Dallas is the team Portland would prefer to see in the postseason, as opposed to the infinitely more intimidating Lakers, Jazz, or […]
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Breaking: Kevin Pritchard Press Conference
A few weeks back, the Portland Trail Blazers were the face of a model NBA franchise: deep pocketed owner (Paul Allen), a general manager that is the envy of the league (Kevin Pritchard), boy genius assistant (Tom Penn), loyal coach (Nate McMillan), and one of the most promising lineups around. But the cracks began to […]
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Your Daily Blazer
Last night the Portland Trail Blazers toppled the Toronto Raptors by a score of 109-98. It was the single worst Raptor-related crime since this film. The game marked the return of Hedo Turkoglu, who backed out a free-agent deal with Portland this off-season, signing with Toronto and playing terribly ever since. Oddly enough Turkoglu was […]
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Blazers vs Raptors – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers host the Toronto Raptors. Finally, something to do this weekend other than stare at this ridiculously cute picture of a baby Nicolas Batum! This is the second and final meeting between these two teams this season, with the Blazers previously winning handily in Toronto. Though, […]
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Greg Oden Goes “Whoop Whoop” for Portland
In what seems like a public relations move to cover up for a certain cameraphone incident, the Blazers have launched the “On the Go with G.O.” video series. You see, like so many transplants, Greg Oden is confused by Portland and needs help understanding his adopted home. In the first episode the big guy complains […]
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Blazers vs Kings – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Sacramento Kings for the first of a pair of games this week. If the rosy-cheeked youthful faces of the Kings look familiar to Portland fans, it’s because this team is in a very similar position to where the Blazers were at in 2006-07. […]