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Here on the Blazer blog, I will have periodic "Conversations" posts. They'll be in-depth looks into my interviews with newsmakers and well-known names that didn't necessarily make it into the […]

Right now, the Trail Blazers gotta be popping champagne bottles somewhere in an Ontario hotel. Okay, well, not really. But the Blazers looked good in their NBA exhibition debut, taking […]

As the 2011-2012 season was winding down to something that looked like "Who Wants To Be Here Next Year?" auditions, more than anyone else J.J. Hickson set himself apart. Hickson […]

Reporting for Tualatin, Ore. or as I'd like to call it 'Comedy Central.' Today, I learned that Coach Terry Stotts got jokes. Before coming here, I asked around to several […]

On Thursday, Blazers rookie Will Barton felt like he was 16 again. Barton passed his Oregon written driver's exam, declaring the big news on his Twitter (@WillTheThrillerB5) a little before 4 […]

It's after 5 o'clock and the folks behind the "ONLY AUTHORIZED TRAIL BLAZER PERSONNEL BEYOND THIS POINT PLEASE" door have periodically checked to see if I'm still here. Yup. I […]

TUALATIN, Ore. — It's rare that players interviewed at the Trail Blazers practice facility are sitting down during the Q&A. But Nicolas Batum likely needed the rest. This restricted free-agency period […]

TUALATIN, Ore. — "I think it's going to have to be something like 'The Waterboy'," said Nolan Smith, referring to the Adam Sandler football film. "I think I'm going to […]