Before the game, the Portland Trail Blazers’ locker room looked festive thanks to the colorful balloons decorating Meyers Leonard’s stall. The rookie big man celebrated his 21st birthday on Wednesday – finally joining grown man status but still the youngest…

Was Nicolas Batum’s shot a short corner three and not a long two? Did Kobe Bryant play whack-a-mole with Damian Lillard’s head on the Trail Blazers’ final shot? Did the Blazers get the short end of the stick with the…

We’re No. 9! Wooooo! It’s not where either team wants to be, but it’s a start. With a win tonight, the Trail Blazers (25-29) can move back to the No. 9 position in the Western Conference standings (of course, the…

Roughly 15 minutes after his team had lost its sixth game in a row, a game that the Trail Blazers desperately needed to have some sort of chance to stay within the Western Conference playoff picture, and while his head…

The Miami Heat organization can thank me later for helping them out with their arena-naming rights because “American Airlines Arena” just doesn’t fit with that team. Call it, the “Hot Tub” – because as Eddie Murphy once sang, and the…

The Trail Blazers started this game by playing one of their most efficient halves of basketball – no, really, the 61 points were just one off from tying a season-best mark for the first half. And the oddity was that,…

Talk about dramatic effect. After Saturday night’s 105-99 win over the Utah Jazz, LaMarcus Aldridge proclaimed that this upcoming six-game road trip will “make or break our season, really.” No gray area in that quote, El Capitan believes the playoff…

Though the Trail Blazers and Utah Jazz played twice in the preseason, the teams have yet to face off for a regular-season game – until tonight. So many strange things about this scheduling fact: Utah is a Western Conference opponent…