Trailblazers

Meyers Leonard isn’t happy with the Portland Trail Blazers’ defense. Nor should he be. Only the Sacramento Kings allow more points per 100 possessions. Against the Brooklyn Nets, however, Leonard was apparently so frustrated, he asked Damian Lillard to call out certain guys for their lackluster play on that end, according to ESPN.com’s Zach Lowe: [...]

Damian Lillard is setting a high standard for himself this season. An MVP-level standard, per Portland Trail Blazers writer Casey Holdahl: [tweet https://twitter.com/CHold/status/790298514026737664] Lillard’s individual expectations are pretty typical as far as these things go. Press a superstar for an individual goal and it will likely include one of the single-player awards, perhaps most of [...]

Game, as the kids say, recognize game. Which is why, during a Twitter Q&A, Damian Lillard named Anthony Davis as the player not currently on his team whom he would most like to team up with (h/t ESPN.com’s Justin Verrier): [tweet https://twitter.com/Dame_Lillard/status/742471569578954753] Easy does it, conspiracy theorists. Lillard has no plans to leave Portland: [tweet [...]

Is the NBA getting predictable? That’s a question we’re left to ask ourselves after blazing through this addition of the NBA power rankings. There are some surprises, sure. But, for the most part, movement is stifled. The top one-third of the league remains pretty stationary, while the five to seven bottom-most feeders are jostling for [...]

In the fourth quarter of the Hawks 106-97 win over the Blazers in Atlanta Monday night, Dennis Schroeder took a nasty hit slipping and falling head first into Meyers Leonard’s knee, knocking out one of his teeth in the process. Schroeder understandably sat there in pain for a little while before deciding to check himself [...]

January 4, 2011 – Allen Moll I don’t know if you would call the Portland Trailblazers snake-bitten when it comes to the injury bug, but upon finding out that 3 time All Star Brandon Roy will be out of action indefinitely, on top of news that former #1 overall pick Greg Oden will once again [...]

September 28, 2010 – Kevin Burke To say that Greg Oden has had a tumultuous start to his pro career would be putting it very lightly. Highly touted out of Ohio State, Oden had huge expectations from day one. Playing with one hand for a good portion of his freshman year in Columbus, he was [...]

August 20, 2010 – Kevin Burke The Blazers’ Rudy Fernandez apparently isn’t happy in Portland, and he wanted everyone to know it. Fernandez was just fined $25,000 by the NBA for going public with his trade demands. How unhappy is he? His agent has said that his client will not report to training camp and [...]

November 23, 2008 – Dr. Browntorious All day leading up to tonight’s match-up between the Phoenix Suns and the Portland Trailblazers I was hearing from friends about how excited they were to see the rookie big man Greg Oden go head to head with future Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal. I hate to agree with [...]