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A Blazers Podcast Episode All About Positivity
The We Like the Blazers podcast crew is back after an offseason hiatus, and they’re thinking positive! On this week’s episode, hosts Conor Bergin and Brandon Mullen tackle everything they’re looking forward to ahead of the 2026-27 Portland Trail Blazers season. The conversation, also featuring input from producer Terence Stilin-Rooney, gets into a lot: the […]
Nate Bjorkgren Transitions to Special Assistant Role With Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers have announced several additions to new head coach Micah Nori’s coaching staff, including the previously reported hires of assistant coaches Jay Triano and Mike Williams. The Trail Blazers also announced assistant coach Nate Bjorkgren will be transitioning to a new role as special assistant to the coaching staff and basketball operations. […]
A Serious and Somber Clash in the Best Things Ever Tournament
The Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament, Round 2 is underway! Yesterday you got the chance to weigh in on things like Golden Retrivers and the Halloween. Today brings two more head-to-head matchups between cool items. One will advance to the Sweet Sixteen, the other will be bumped from the tournament. Which is which? You […]
Guitars or Disney in Best Things Ever Second Round?
The Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament, Round 2 is underway! Yesterday you got the chance to weigh in on things like Mac and Cheese and the Oregon Coast. Today brings two more head-to-head matchups between cool items. One will advance to the Sweet Sixteen, the other will be bumped from the tournament. Which is […]
Can You Beat This NBA All-Time Starting Lineup?
When you write an NBA blog, content is never far from your mind. I spend an inordinate amount of time cruising around in my car, running errands or driving to work, thinking about this league and all the machinations that go into it. During the summer time when games are in recess, the history of […]
Blazers Set Date for Annual Fan Fest
The Portland Trail Blazers have announced they will hold their annual Fan Fest event at the Moda Center on Sunday, Oct. 4 at 4 p.m. PDT. The free event will be headlined by an open team scrimmage, but it will also feature interactive fan activities, appearances from the BlazerDancers and team mascots, giveaways and more. […]
Best Things Ever Round 2 Voting: Coast or Halloween?
Round 2 of the Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament of 2026 is now underway. The first round contained 32 matchups between 64 good things in life. Blazer’s Edge Readers voted for one good thing to advance out of each pairing. With that complete, Round 2 is set! We’ll vote until we have a final […]
Vote in Round 2 of the Best Things Ever Tournament: Puppies or Pasta?
Round 2 of the Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament of 2026 is now underway. The first round contained 32 matchups between 64 good things in life. Blazer’s Edge Readers voted for one good thing to advance out of each pairing. With that complete, Round 2 is set! We’ll vote until we have a final […]
Chauncey Billups Trial Now Set for March, 2027
The trial for former Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups has been pushed back from November, 2026 to March, 2027. The NBA star and five-year coach was indicted for federal gambling charges in October, 2025. Legal proceedings have been underway since then, with Billups out on bond and awaiting trial. KGW TV reported the […]
Remembering the Human Side of Athletic Injuries
Shaedon Sharpe deactivated his instagram account and it’s hard not to know why. Internet commentary is the unfiltered id of society and he had the audacity to commit a professional athlete’s one unforgivable sin: he got injured. In the grand scheme of things, a young man in his twenties tearing his meniscus isn’t some great […]
Pelicans, Grizzlies Execute Late-Summer Trade
The New Orleans Pelicans and Memphis Grizzlies have teamed up for a late-summer trade revolving around minor role players and second-round picks, ESPN’s Shams Charania reported Tuesday. The New Orleans Pelicans are trading Jordan Hawkins, Micah Peavy, a future second-round pick and a future second-round pick swap to the Memphis Grizzlies for AJ Johnson and […]
Portland Listed Among Candidates for MLB Expansion
The Portland Trail Blazers have been the big dog in the professional sports yard in the City of Roses for five decades. Portland has welcomed soccer clubs, other basketball teams, and minor-league baseball, but no NFL or MLB franchise has sidled up alongside the Blazers to satiate the town’s appetite for big-name sports. According to […]
How Did the Trail Blazers Do This Summer?
With Labor Day now past, it’s time to acknowledge that fall, September, and the ramp-up to the 2026-27 season are now upon us. It won’t be long until Media Day, training camp, and preseason games start. Acknowledging that, we’re going to update a Blazer’s Edge Mailbag question submitted back in July. Check it out. Dave, […]
Laughs or GIFs? Your Last Chance in the Best Things Ever First Round!
The final Best Things Ever first-round matchup is upon us! For those who have slept through the exercise, each day you’ll get two posts, each with two items for you to choose from. Simply select whichever you think is better, just like you were at the optometrist hearing, “A…or B?” The winners will advance in […]
Books or Kittens? Vote in the Best Things Ever First Round Here!
Our Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament has come to the very last matchups of the first round! After a day to tally votes, we will post a bracket and narrow down all of our first-round winners to an Elite Eight via the second round. Before we get there, though, one more day of voting […]
What’s Your Most Unc (or Auntie) View on Basketball?
Over the last year I’ve had the opportunity to get educated on a new generation of jargon, popularized by Gen Z and some of our younger companions on the planet. One of the most prominent words I’ve encountered is “unc”, likely because I am one at this point in my life. Stemming from the word, […]
Blazers Expected to Sign Hyun-jung Lee to Contract
The Portland Trail Blazers are expected to sign 6’7 Korean wing Hyun-jung Lee to and Exhibit 10 contract to play for the Rip City Remix this season. Rumblings across Korea and from local media personality Sean Highkin indicate that the signing is just around the corner. Lee played for the Davidson Wildcats in College, subsequently […]
What would you do with Scoot Henderson?
Since Scoot Henderson was drafted, his time in Portland has been anything other than rosy. It’s been a grind for him, after he was exposed as a rookie for not being ready to be the star his hype promoted. Whether it was being sat for turning over the ball too much, or a hamstring tear […]
Ranking the NBA’s Western Conference After a Wild Offseason
We’re officially in the dog days of one of the most blockbuster summers in NBA history. All of the major transactions have completed and with the dust settled, we can start to frame how each team stacks up. This offseason saw several brand name talents switch teams via trade or free agency, while June’s draft […]
Choose Cocoa or Circumferences in the Best Things Ever Tournament!
The Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Bracket has reached its penultimate day of first-round matchups. Today and tomorrow will conclude the first round of our March Madness Style Tournament to determine the Best Thing Ever in 2026, choosing from pairs of randomly-matched cool things! All you have to do each day is check out a […]
Best Things Ever: Lord of the Rings or Pizza? You choose!
The Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Bracket has reached its penultimate day of first-round matchups. Today and tomorrow will conclude the first round of our March Madness Style Tournament to determine the Best Thing Ever in 2026, choosing from pairs of randomly-matched cool things! All you have to do each day is check out a […]
Blazers Should Be Monitoring the Magic on the Trade Market
The Portland Trail Blazers need forward depth, length and shooting. We’ve bleated on ad nauseum about the front office’s overstocking of diminuitive guards, but how do you fix the problem? Trading one or more of said guards to a team with a similar abundance in the frontcourt would theoretically make the most sense. Granted, the […]
What Intrigues, Worries and Excites You About the Trail Blazers?
Start clearing your evening calendars again, the Portland Trail Blazers’ regular season opener on Oct. 21 is now less than 50 days away! More basketball is right around the corner in Portland, complete with all the highs and lows that accompany an 82-game NBA slate. I had the pleasure of appearing on Friday’s episode of […]
Day Tripper or Dream House in Best Things Ever Tournament?
The Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament continues onward today. Only two days remain in the first round! But before we get there, and get that second-round bracket set, we have a couple more choices for you to make. For those who aren’t up to speed, each day we give you two opportunities to choose […]
Best Things Ever: Cell Phones vs. Doughnuts
The first round of the Blazer’s Edge Best Things Ever Tournament will conclude in just a couple days. Before we get to what’s sure to be a massive second round full of impossible matchups, we have a few preliminary matters to settle. Some heavyweights are coming out in the last days of the first round! […]
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