Blazer Banter

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]