C.J. McCollum

With one of the league’s seven highest payrolls, yet only the 12th-best record, the Portland Trail Blazers find themselves in a weird spot as they barrel toward the NBA’s Feb. 8 trade deadline. Some will argue they should begin a quasi-teardown, dealing away some of their larger salaries in favor of cap relief and, if [...]

Carmelo Anthony would never waive his no-trade clause to play for anyone other than the Cleveland Cavaliers or Houston Rockets. Or would he? Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum seem think Anthony is open to playing for the Portland Trail Blazers, who have entered, unofficially, the now-anemic Melo sweepstakes. Both stars have copped to recruiting the [...]

With three first-round draft picks and a ton of guaranteed contracts on the books, the Portland Trail Blazers are bound to look different next season. Anything they do, given their cap situation, must be executed via trade. But the Blazers are also unique in that they are an unfinished product with two cornerstones, Damian Lillard and [...]

Sitting one game under .500, with the NBA’s worst defense, it’s safe to say that the Portland Trail Blazers have been a huge disappointment to start the 2016-17 season. The problem, it seems, is that the Blazers aren’t playing with a desperate urgency. Watch their games, and it looks like they’re coasting. And they aren’t [...]

C.J. McCollum is officially big time. According to Cleveland.com’s Chris Haynes, the Portland Trail Blazers combo guard has a received an invitation to join the USA Select Team: #Blazers C.J. McCollum to be invited to USA Select Team, league source tells @clevelanddotcom. Canton native won Most Improved Player honor. — Chris Haynes (@ChrisBHaynes) May 10, [...]

It was announced by the NBA Friday morning that third-year Blazers shooting guard C.J. McCollum has been named the NBA Most Improved Player for the 2015-16 season. [tweet https://twitter.com/excelsm/status/723517122358464512] McCollum basically tripled his output from the previous season in 20 more minutes per game, averaging 20.8 points, 4.3 assists, 3.2 rebounds and 1.2 steals in [...]

Next time you think about tweeting or writing something pertaining to any specific athlete, remember this piece of advice: Some of them are watching, perhaps ready to respond. A select few of those serial watchers are also ready to passive aggressively let you know they’re watching. Which brings us to C.J. McCollum, who recently liked [...]

Golden State Warriors All-Star guard Klay Thompson says he’s the best shooting guard in the NBA today, a drum he’s been beating the last few years, especially since the physical decline of the great Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers. When asked about his starting five at each position today, Klay named Curry at [...]

C.J. McCollum knows it’s go time. Entering his third NBA season, McCollum now needs to make the transition from developing complementary piece to key building block as the Portland Trail Blazers look to rebound and regroup after a franchise-altering offseason in which 80 percent of last year’s starting lineup journeyed elsewhere, by way of trade [...]