Last night the Portland Blazers lost a big game on national television to a clearly superior Denver Nuggets team, and… wait, what? Andre Miller dunked the ball? Without a trampoline? Woah. Where did that come from? Miller hasn’t dunked in about three years, so this highlight is about as rare as a clutch time basket […]
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Joel Przybilla Hurt (Again) While in the Shower
From the saddest press release you will read all day: PORTLAND, Ore. — Trail Blazers center Joel Przybilla will undergo surgery on his right patella tendon in the next few days. Przybilla re-ruptured his right patella tendon Saturday morning after slipping in the shower at his home in Milwaukee, Wis. He returned to Portland today […]
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Blazers vs Pacers – Hot Live Blog Action
Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the Indiana Pacers. Since the Pacers only make a single visit to Portland this season, here is some information on the team: Coached by Norman Dale (who lost his previous coaching position after physically striking a student) their best player, Jimmy Chitwood, does not […]
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When the Portland Trail Blazers embarked on a five game road trek on the 23rd of February, things were not looking well. The team had fumbled away four of five inside the Rose Garden, and although their road trip schedule was littered with a few of the NBA’s finest lightweights (New Jersey, Minnesota), Portland needed […]
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Say Hello to Travis Diener
The Blazers have just filled the empty void in their bench by signing former Indiana Pacers guard Travis Diener to their final roster spot. Since Portland always needs a scrappy white point-guard with little skills outside of Europe or the D-League (Richie Frahm, Dan Dickeau), Diener will feel right at home nervously clutching Brandon Roy’s […]
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Best Picture Nominees for Portland Trail Blazer Fans
Since it’s Academy Award season the clever folks at Blazers blog Bust-a-Bucket have taken to Photoshopping up some custom faux movie posters in honor of Portland’s tumultuous season thus far. They did one for each Best Picture nominee, although their Hurt Locker spoof has a logo that looks a bit too similar to what we […]
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Take a seat, Negative Nancy, the Blazers are winning again. After a dismal homestand, the Portland Trail Blazers have fired up a modest two game win streak. Granted one win was against the New Jersey Nets (basically a rec league team with their own arena) and the Toronto Raptors (not even American), but let’s not […]
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Pain is Funny When it Happens to the French
One might be tempted to watch the following video and say, “I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy… however, since the guy is French, I’ll allow it.” ALSO! Big ups to the announcer in this piece who obviously has as little regard for French genitalia as the rest of us. “Oh Monsieurrrrr”.
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Last night the Portland Trail Blazers lost Marcus Camby and Jerryd Bayless to ankle injuries and then nearly blew a 21-point lead to the worst team in the league—and possibly in NBA history—the New Jersey Nets. Yay? The good news is that Portland won (102-93), Camby and Bayless are both day-to-day (Camby is definitely out […]
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WWE’s Undertaker Makes Burniest Entrance Ever*!
*That is if you don’t count Michael Jackson, I guess.One of the WWE’s most popular wrestlers, The Undertaker, got a singe and a scare on Sunday when a pyrotechnic snafu occurred during a match in St. Louis. Upon entering the arena, a number of fireballs exploded around him, with one hitting him square in the […]
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Carlos Boozer unhinged his jaw, ate the sandwich, then kept playing. Last night the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Utah Jazz… I think. They were up 25 when I left early to beat traffic. Let me just double check that… …OH DEAR GOD. Turns out that while I was driving away in my Hummer and […]