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The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Donnie Walsh, the former basketball chief in Indiana and New York, hated the NBA Draft Lottery, once calling it "a convention of losers.
"Walsh, a competitive guy, always hated being in North Jersey (now Times Square) for the lottery because it meant he wasn't doing his job and instead of basking in the excitement of sold out arenas for playoff games, it was all about a television studio and a bunch of ping-pong balls.In fact, nothing has been more aptly titled than the NBA Draft Lottery.Just like some ham-and-egger that spent the last of his paycheck on a Mega- Millions ticket, bad NBA teams gather, bring lucky trinkets or in the case of Dan Gilbert, his neurofibromatosis-afflicted son, and hope things turn out for the best.Sure a cognizant, well-designed plan, implemented over a number of years by well-respected basketball people is probably a better option than hoping your number comes up but that takes time and in our short-attention-span culture, that's the one thing few teams have...Rudy Gay scored 21 points and had a key block in the final seconds as the Memphis Grizzlies won their fourth straight, 93-89 over the Portland Trail Blazers on Satur...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers have signed restricted free-agent guard Wesley Matthews to an offer sheet.Matthews spent last season playing for the...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Portland Trail Blazers fired general manager Kevin Pritchard after six seasons with the team, ending months of speculation that he had fall...
LaMarcus Aldridge had 20 points and 11 rebounds before heading to the sideline late in the third quarter, and the Portland Trail Blazers routed the Cleveland Cavalie...
Wesley Matthews scored 11 of his 21 points in the fourth quarter and the Portland Trail Blazers pulled away for a 107-102 victory over the Sacramento Kings on Wednes...
The defending champion Dallas Mavericks should have no trouble locking up one of the final playoff seeds in the Western Conference, but the same can't be said for th...
Jamal Crawford scored 34 points off the bench as the Portland Trail Blazers escaped with a 118-110 victory over the Golden State Warriors at the Rose Garden.J.J. Hic...
A pair of teams on the outside, looking in at the Western Conference playoff picture meet in Rip City on Sunday when the Portland Trail Blazers play host to the Gold...
Two days after sending quite a message to LeBron James and the Miami Heat, Western Conference-leading Oklahoma City will get back to work in Rip City against the Por...
The rest of the NBA better be aware of the Los Angeles Lakers if they're starting to find their niche on the road.Already a dynamic force as the host, the Pacific Di...
Andrew Bynum had 28 points and nine rebounds, point guard Ramon Sessions had 20 points and 11 assists in his first start for the Lakers, and Los Angeles beat the Por...
No one has handled adversity quite like the Portland Trail Blazers.A seemingly never ending series of injuries to what were supposed to be the franchise's two corner...
With the retirement of star player Brandon Roy , the latest face of the Portland Trail Blazers franchise, it could be tough for the beloved basketball squad in the P...
Nate McMillan came to Portland in 2005 with a mission to rebuild the Trail Blazers into a Western Conference contender and repair the once-proud franchise's tattered...
The Utah Jazz have four games left to make their case for a postseason berth starting with tonight's contest in Rip City against the Portland Trail Blazers.The Jazz ...
San Antonio locked up the top spot in the Western Conference as 13 different Spurs scored in a 124-89 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at AT&T Center on Monda...
Devin Harris netted 27 points, Gordon Hayward added 23 and the Utah Jazz never trailed in a 112-91 dismantling of the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday.Alec Bucks ...
Alec Burks put home 18 points on 6-of-9 shooting and the Utah Jazz used a fourth-quarter rally to overtake the Portland Trail Blazers, 96-94, in the regular-season f...
The playoff-bound Memphis Grizzlies will close out the regular season with a three-game homestand starting with Saturday's matchup against the Portland Trail Blazers...
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