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The Portland Trail Blazers and Utah Jazz are heading to the second half. That means so is the discussion! Here are the game details again: Portland Trail Blazers (16-20) vs. Utah Jazz (12-22) – Mon. Jan. 5th – 7:00pm Pacific How to watch via antenna or cable: See your options on the Rip City Television Network. […]
UPDATE: Blazers center Robert Williams III is AVAILABLE to play tonight. The Portland Trail Blazers are back in town, winners of 4 of their last 5 games. Now they’ll look to keep the good times rolling as they take on the Utah Jazz at the Moda Center tonight! Here are the game details: Portland Trail […]
Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija has taken another step in confirming his burgeoning NBA stardom, winning NBA Player of the Week for the week spanning December 29th-January 4th. During that time Avdija averaged 26.8 points, 9.8 assists, and 8.3 rebounds while leading the Blazers to a 3-1 record. Avdija, the Western Conference Player of […]
Don’t look now, but the Portland Trail Blazers have won four out of their last five games. With the Utah Jazz on tap tonight, there’s a decent chance they can make it five of six. The Blazers haven’t gotten magically healthier. Their opponents were not suddenly terrible. Rather Portland appears to be shoring up a […]
After sinking all the way to No. 24 in NBA.com’s league-wide power rankings, the Portland Trail Blazers are on the upward climb again. NBA.com’s John Schuhmann moved Portland up four spots to No. 20 in the latest rankings. The leap was propelled by a 4-1 stretch over seven days that saw the Blazers notch wins […]
The Jazz (12-22) roll into Portland tonight to face the Trail Blazers, (16-20) looking to get back to their winning ways. Or, perhaps, continue their tanking ways? Utah is 3-7 in their last 10, which is bad, but still amounts to 50% of the Indiana Pacers’ win total and 33% of the 4th-worst Washington Wizards’ […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are fresh off a win against the San Antonio Spurs, a feel-good start to the 2026 calendar year. The Utah Jazz are on tap tomorrow. If Portland weren’t so random, it’d be easy to predict a three-game winning streak and a genuine hot streak on the rise. As Portland fans know, […]
There is a school of thought that suggests the Portland Trail Blazers will forever be consigned to mediocrity in the NBA until they have the star power required to match the high-level talent possessed by their more fortunate opponents. Fans advocating that the Blazers go all-in on acquiring a top-5 player (or top-10 at least) […]
As the Portland Trail Blazers notched a good win in San Antonio, let’s wander around the forest of the Internet to pick up the sticks of postgame content. Immediately after the game, Blazers reporter Brooke Olzendam’s on-court mic failed for her interview with Deni Avdija, so she got an assist from Blazers commentator Kevin Calabro […]
Coming off a victory against the Indiana Pacers, the Spurs returned home on a SEGABABA versus the Portland Trail Blazers. The Spurs once again would be without Victor Wembanyama and Devin Vassell due to their respective injuries. The Spurs had one of their slowest starts of the season, where they trailed as much as 13 […]
After leading by as many as 15 points, the Portland Trail Blazers awoke from a dreamy first quarter to find the San Antonio Spurs making up the deficit and then some. Despite Shaedon Sharpe having a historically bad game, Portland rode Deni Avdija, Donovan Clingan, and Caleb Love to find just enough offense to squeak […]
Two short-handed teams on the second night of a back-to-back collided in the Spurs’ home opener of 2026, but unfortunately, the more shorthanded Portland Trail Blazers prevailed. After a slow first quarter, the Spurs found themselves down by 15 points a couple of times in the second before finally fighting back and even taking the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers snatched their second win in two days, holding off the San Antonio Spurs 115-110 in crunch time on Saturday night. Even with superstar Victor Wembanyama out with a knee injury, these Spurs are no slouches — evidenced by how they handled the Blazers without Wembanyama back in November. Portland, still shorthanded […]
The Spurs’ first home game of 2026 was a failure because of an inability to guard the 3-point line and contain the glass. It was the fifth game dropped at Frost Bank Center this season, making their home record the same as on the road (12-5). Luke Kornet had a hot stretch for four minutes, […]
Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our community guidelines apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don’t troll and don’t swear too much. Both teams in tonight’s game played on the road last night, […]
Shaedon Sharpe was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the seventh pick and a lot of mystery in 2022. The fact that he didn’t take the court his freshman year at Kentucky made it tricky for NBA teams searching for a comprehensive understanding of his ability and potential. But then newly-minted Blazers General Manager […]
The Portland Trail Blazers travel to San Antonio where the Spurs distributed free tickets to the game to fans who participated in a Friday blood drive. In turn, Portland will look for San Antonio to be generous enough to give them a win. Portland enters the Alamo City after notching a 122-109 victory over New Orleans […]
The San Antonio Spurs are entering a strange stretch of their season to start the new year. After defeating the Indiana Pacers, 123-113 in Indianapolis, they’ll travel back to San Antonio for a matchup with the Portland Trail Blazers on the second game of a back-to-back. It’s the first of three series of back-to-back games […]
The Portland Trail Blazers clashed with the New Orleans Pelicans on Friday night in a game that could have featured a superteam formed of injury-list players. Derik Queen, Trey Murphy III, Saddiq Bey, Dejounte Murray, Herb Jones, Jerami Grant, Jrue Holiday, Scoot Henderson, and Damian Lillard were all out. Despite that, the two teams managed […]
Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija and guard Shaedon Sharpe were both nominated for NBA Western Conference Player of the Month for the month of December, the league announced today. In 14 games in December, Avdija averaged 24.6 points, 8.5 assists, 7.4 rebounds, 1.2 steals and 36.7 minutes per game while shooting 45.1% from the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are heading to New Orleans to take on the Pelicans for the second game of a three-game road trip. Portland is looking to add another game to the win column after losing to the Oklahoma City Thunder in the first game of the road trip. New Orleans, on the other hand, […]
Despite today’s injury update, there’s no change to the Portland Trail Blazers’ injury report for tomorrow’s game against the New Orleans Pelicans. Earlier today, the Blazers gave long-anticipated injury updates for Jrue Holiday, Matisse Thybulle, Scoot Henderson and Jerami Grant. Grant, who is dealing with left Achilles tendonitis, remains out despite the report suggesting he […]
The 2026 NBA Trade Deadline is coming up on February 5th, about five weeks away. The wires have been quiet across the league so far, but there are sure to be waves and splashes before the clock hits zero on the big date. The margins are too tight and the cost of carrying excess talent […]
The Portland Trail Blazers went 2-2 this week with losses to the Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Clippers to start, then wins over the Boston Celtics and Dallas Mavericks to close it out. There were a number of standout performances this week, but rookie guard Caleb Love takes home the Blazer of the Week honor […]
The Dallas Mavericks are stumbling, particularly on the road where they faced the Portland Trail Blazers on Monday night. The Mavs could not reverse their fortunes away from home, losing 125-122. We’ll dive a little deeper than usual for our assessments, for those of you who didn’t get to stay up to the wee hours […]