LaMarcus Aldridge has maintained that he was as surprised as anyone that he made the 2013 All-Star game. The day after also appeared to be quite the surprise for him. On Friday after practice, the media scrum cornered Aldridge as…
LaMarcus Aldridge has maintained that he was as surprised as anyone that he made the 2013 All-Star game. The day after also appeared to be quite the surprise for him. On Friday after practice, the media scrum cornered Aldridge as…
With the Indiana Pacers in town tonight, it’s only natural to daydream about 7-foot-2 center Roy Hibbert taking the tipoffs on the pinwheel for every home game. Hibbert, as you may remember, came tantalizingly close to becoming a Blazer this…
After the night in Denver when Blazers’ lungs and legs battled through an overtime loss, the team returns to the Rose Garden tonight for a back-to-back game. Four of the starters clocked 40-plus minutes last night, and when you couple…
While working on the story about Damian Lillard and his hometown of East Oakland, I wanted to include as many basketball voices from The Town as possible. One of those voices had to be that of Oakland product and NBA…
Warriors 103, Trail Blazers 97 Damian Lillard wore the poker face all week when asked about going back tonight to play his first game as an NBA player in his hometown. Even going so far as to tell me: “I…
The Trail Blazers host the woeful Orlando Magic tonight at 7 p.m. While the Blazers are fresh off a 3-1 road trip, the Magic (shouldn’t it be the “Magicians?”) have lost eight straight. Some have been very close games, nevertheless…
The Trail Blazers matched grit for grit with the Memphis Grizzlies tonight for a 86-84 win inside the FedEx Forum. They locked down and beat the Griz at the their own game, the Blazers also remained true to themselves. So…
Photo courtesy of the Associated Press In one of the final games of the lockout-shortened 2011-2012 season, the new addition to the Trail Blazers’ lineup, J.J. Hickson, had one of those games that we’ve grown accustomed to witnessing as of…
Trip City. In a difficult four-game in five-night stretch, the Trail Blazers were bound to trip up somewhere. And it didn’t take long. One night after beating the New York Knicks in the world’s most famous basketball arena, the Blazers…
The Trail Blazers (16-14) started this four-game, five-night road trip with a win last night inside Madison Square Garden. Now, it’s on to the next one in Toronto, which explains the lead photo. We all know what happened the last…
