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Are the Trail Blazers Any Good?
The Portland Trail Blazers are carrying a 27-29 record into the stretch run of their 2025-26 regular season campaign. In some ways the year has seemed long already. Their 5-3 start to the season—with wins over the Lakers, Warriors, Nuggets, and Thunder—seems almost like another lifetime. In other ways, the year has gone quickly. Injuries […]
Domantas Sabonis Done for the Season with Knee Injury
Sacramento Kings forward/center Domantas Sabonis is undergoing surgery for a left-knee injury. The procedure will keep him on the sidelines for the remainder of the 2025-26 season. NBA media guru Chris Haynes reported the news today, citing league sources. The 10-year veteran averaged 15.8 points, 11.4 points, and 4.1 assist in 19 appearances for the […]
What Will the Trail Blazers’ Record Be Down the Stretch?
Coming out of the 2026 NBA All-Star Break, the Portland Trail Blazers hold a 27-29 record, good for 9th place in the NBA’s Western Conference. 26 games remain on their schedule. That leaves the Blazers a theoretical minimum of 27 wins for the season, a maximum of 53. Here’s the question of the day: where […]
Joe Cronin Shares Insights on the Blazers, Relationship with Damian Lillard, More
Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin sat down with Robert Ohman and Aaron Mesh of Willamette Week to answer questions about his future with the Blazers and much more. The piece is the most in-depth interview published during Cronin’s tenure, and few details are spared (sans sensitive answers about future plans). On new Blazers […]
Making Sense of Politics in a Messy Sports World
The Blazer’s Edge Mailbag covers all kinds of questions about the Portland Trail Blazers and the NBA. Some of them are statistical, others theoretical and stylistic. A few are just silly, because we need some of that! But we also cover more serious topics from time to time, including this one, submitted by a reader […]
Blazers Front Office Rises the Ranks in CBS Power Poll
Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin and colleagues have risen the ranks in CBS Sports’ biannual front office rankings by Sam Quinn, slotting in as the 19th best front office in the league. Cronin and Co. moved up four spots since the previous ranking in July 2025. Quinn gives credit to Cronin’s big swings, […]
A Silly Idea to Help the NBA Slam Dunk Contest
NBA All-Star Weekend is done for another year. Reviews on the proceedings have been positive, generally. The players played harder in the main game(s). Damian Lillard was a feel-good story winning the Three-Point contest. Shooting Stars is a glorified intermission distraction, but I don’t think anyone minded it. (See note at bottom of this post, […]
Jabari Walker Signs Two-Year Deal with 76ers
Former Portland Trail Blazers big Jabari Walker is signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia 76ers, according to ESPN’s Shams Charania: The Philadelphia 76ers intend to sign forward Jabari Walker to a new two-year contract, sources tell ESPN. 76ers and Klutch Sports’ Rich Paul and Anthony Fields negotiated the new deal for Walker, who earned […]
Blazers All-Star Weekend Interview Round-Up: Yang and Clingan
The Portland Trail Blazers were well-represented at NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles this year. Portland forward Deni Avdija competed in the main event on Sunday, giving the franchise its first All-Star since Damian Lillard in 2023. Lillard claimed his third 3-Point Contest title on Saturday, despite not playing in a game this season as […]
Blazers All-Star Weekend Interview Round-Up: Avdija and Lillard
The Portland Trail Blazers were well-represented at NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles this year. Portland forward Deni Avdija competed in the main event on Sunday, giving the franchise its first All-Star since Damian Lillard in 2023. Lillard claimed his third 3-Point Contest title on Saturday, despite not playing in a game this season as […]
Astonishing News About Blazer’s Edge Night!
We have an incredible update on Blazer’s Edge Night, our annual charity event where we send children and youth from underserved areas to see the Portland Trail Blazers play at the Moda Center in person. We hold this event every year. Teachers and coaches—and plenty of other people who work with underprivileged kids—write in to […]
Why the NBA Doesn’t Just Copy the NFL’s Local Broadcast System
When it comes to American sports leagues, nobody is as successful at monetizing broadcasts, team identity, and their sport itself as the National Football League. The NBA has made great strides in recent years, but they’re still looking up at the NFL and the gap isn’t close. Not coincidentally, the NFL also has the most […]
What’s Your Review of NBA All-Star Weekend?
As the dust settles from another NBA All-Star Weekend in Los Angeles, now comes the time for a performance review of the event and all its changes. This year’s event was headlined by a change to Sunday’s All-Star Game format, featuring two USA All-Star teams and one team of international stars. The three teams competed […]
Love Inducted into Arizona’s Ring of Honor
Portland Trail Blazers guard Caleb Love was inducted into the University of Arizona’s Ring of Honor yesterday (Feb. 14) in a ceremony honoring his two seasons with the school. From Justin Spears of the Arizona Daily Star: The former Pac-12 Player of the Year, who is the only player in program history to be named […]
Avdija, Team World Fall, USA Stars Take All-Star Crown
Portland Trail Blazers star Deni Avdija competed in his first-ever NBA All-Star game this afternoon, representing the Portland Trail Blazers for the first time since Damian Lillard in 2023. Avdija scored 5 points, 4 assists, and 1 rebound across two contests as Team World narrowly lost both of their games. Team USA Stars cruised to […]
Discussion: Avdija Plays in First All-Star Game
Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija will suit up for the 2026 NBA All-Star Game Tournament today at 2pm Pacific. The game can be watched on NBC or streaming on Peacock. Avdija becomes the first Blazers player not named Damian Lillard to be an All-Star since LaMarcus Aldridge in 2015. This year’s All-Star feature, which […]
Slam Dunking Keshad Johnson, Knicks Big Winners at NBA All-Star Saturday
NBA All-Star Saturday, 2026 is in the books. Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers won the three-point shooting contest. The shooting stars competition was claimed by Jalen Brunson and the representatives of the New York Knicks. Keshad Johnson of the Miami Heat took the slam dunk contest. Here’s a summary of how the latter […]
Damian Lillard is Your 2026 3-Point Champion!
In spite of not playing a minute of NBA basketball since his torn left Achilles tendon sustained on April 27, 2025, Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard is the 2026 State Farm 3-Point Contest champion. He joins Larry Bird and Craig Hodges as the only 3-time winners of the event. The format for the 3-point […]
Discussion: 3pt Contest and All-Star Saturday Events
The NBA All-Star Weekend has reached Saturday, and following Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen playing in the Rising Stars games yesterday, we get to see another Trail Blazer in an official event as Damian Lillard looks to win his record-tying third Three-Point Contest today at 2pm Pacific! This will be followed by the Shooting Stars […]
NBA Parties in LA as Kawhi-gate Looms
As NBA All-Star Weekend festivities continue at the Los Angeles Clippers’ Intuit Dome, fans and teams around the league await results of a league investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salary cap rules by arranging an endorsement deal for Kawhi Leonard with a former team sponsor. The Trail Blazers and the Clippers currently sit right […]
Yang Hansen Has a Ways to Go
The Portland Trail Blazers made what many considered a head-scratching move at June’s NBA Draft. Armed with the 11th pick, the Blazers had the opportunity to take names like Cedric Coward, Carter Bryant, Derik Queen and Kasparas Jakucionis. Instead, they struck a deal with the Memphis Grizzlies, selecting Coward at 11 and sending him to […]
Clingan and Hansen Both Prominent in NBA All-Star Rising Stars Challenge
Portland Trail Blazers centers Donvan Clingan and Yang Hansen, the latter representing the Rip City Remix, were among the most prominent players for their teams in the Rising Stars competition on the first day of NBA All-Star weekend, 2026 in Inglewood, California. The mini-tournament featured three teams consisting of NBA rookies and second year players, […]
NBA All-Star Weekend Rising Stars Challenge and Celebrity Game Discussion
NBA All-Star Weekend is upon us! Tonight’s festivities include the Ruffles All-Star Celebrity Game at 4:00 PM, Pacific on ESPN and the Castrol Rising Stars Challenge beginning at 6:00 PM, Pacific on Peacock. Blazers centers Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen will be participating in the Rising Stars tournament. Tune in and discuss the action here […]
The Easiest Way (that you’ve never heard of) to Fix the NBA’s Tanking Problem
The NBA has several rites of passage in each season: the All-Star Break, the playoffs, the NBA Finals, MVP awards and drafting and free agent season. Nestled among all of them, hidden but no less regular, is the annual head shake of disgust over teams that are tanking for high lottery picks in the upcoming […]
How Are You Feeling About the Blazers at the All-Star Break?
The Portland Trail Blazers have reached the NBA All-Star break — presenting us all with a pause for reflection on the 2025-26 NBA season. The Blazers enter the break with a 27-29 record, firmly in the Western Conference Play-In picture as the No. 9 seed with 26 games left. They’ve persevered through a litany of […]
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