LaMarcus Aldridge

With the NBA draft looming, the rumor mill is beginning to heat up. Teams will use this time to acquire contracts and draft picks, and shed big salaries with the hope of freeing up some cap space for free agency and/or getting under the league’s luxury-tax line. Three of the biggest names available, according to [...]

Mike Brown returning to the Cleveland Cavaliers wouldn’t be as big a story as LaMarcus Aldridge being traded to them. No, I’m not penning just random thoughts (though I do sometimes). The Cavaliers have or had Aldridge on the brain at one point or another. Per Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, the Cavaliers have fantasized [...]

The Portland Trail Blazers are suddenly a playoff contender, and J.J. Hickson is suddenly a hot commodity. At present, Portland is one game over .500 and just a half-game outside the Western Conference playoff bubble. In the midst of a rebuild, few expected the Blazers to toil with a .500 record, let alone a playoff [...]

When the Portland Trail Blazers signed Nicolas Batum to a four year deal worth nearly $50 million, the hope was that he would develop into a superstar this season. But is he ready? It’s a fair question, because while the 23-year-old continues to improve on a season-by-season basis, his averages of 13.9 points, 4.6 rebounds [...]

September 11, 2012 – Dan Favale The Portland Trail Blazers are an enigma. Portland went from title contenders to clawing for a playoff spot to a bona fide lottery team in 66 games last season. And to make matters worse, it’s unclear whether the Blazers have enough pieces in place to turn it all around [...]

April 13, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors The NBA franchise most plagued by injuries, just got plagued a little further. As if Brandon Roy retiring and the long overdue releasing of Greg Oden wasn’t enough, LaMarcus Aldridge needs hip surgery. The Trail Blazers announced that All-Star forward LaMarcus Aldridge will have arthroscopic surgery to repair [...]

March 6, 2012 – Griffin Gotta Trade deadline rumors are all over the place in Portland right now, with it appearing that at least either Jamal Crawford or Raymond Felton, and possibly both of them, could be moved. This is a far cry from early January, when the Blazers were 7-2 with wins over the [...]

February, 2012 – Dan Favale After acquiring Raymond Felton on draft night, the Portland Trail Blazers seemed poised to make a legitimate championship push this season, yet that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. The Blazers started hot, but have cooled off to the point of frigid over the past ten games, dropping to [...]

January 23, 2012 – The Hoop Doctors There have been some big time performances this week in the NBA. The numbers Chris Paul put up on the Lakers were nice, but maybe none were as impressive as Lebron’s showing against the Spurs. Check out the highlights of our Top 5 NBA performances of the past [...]