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Check Out This “Oregon Trail”-Inspired Guide to the Upcoming Blazers Season

Will the real Blazers make the playoffs, or die of dysentery around the All-Star break? Only time will tell. But at least we’ll always have eight-bit Damian Lillard murdering opposing mascots with basketballs.

CJ McCollum and Kevin Durant Traded Insults Online Tonight, and It Lit Up NBA Twitter

Last night, however, with the offseason approaching its dog days, the Blazers were at the center of the conversation among hardcore hoops-heads—as usual, though, it had nothing to do with anything the front office did.

The Blazers Are Back in the NBA Playoffs. Here Are Six Phrases Every Casual Fan Should Memorize.

If you’re a person who doesn’t necessarily watch basketball, but you want to fit in and enjoy this playoff run, which will hopefully go two or three rounds-—the Blazers have a high seed and are playing a hobbled, janky Pelicans squad in the first round—you’re going to need to learn some catchphrases about the team, broad statements that will pass muster amongst the more hardcore people surrounding you at the party or family gathering you’ve found yourself at. Please, try these on for size.

This Portlander Jump-Started His Sneaker Design Career With a Pair of “Black Panther”-Inspired Dame 4s

While watching Black Panther, Portland’s Stephen Perona couldn’t help but notice similarities to a certain basketball player.

Blazers Guard Shabazz Napier Will Be Pouring Coffee at Stumptown This Weekend

This Saturday, March 31, at Stumptown’s newly remodeled downtown location, the Massachusetts native will assume the role of barista, serving up free coffee while also signing bags of Stumptown’s Blazer Blend.

These Four Baskets by Damian Lillard Defined a Month When the Blazers Never Lost

Dame just decided they wouldn’t lose. So they didn’t. For 13 straight games.

Blazer Fans Have Successfully Crowdfunded a Billboard Attempting to Lure LeBron James to Portland

Consider Portland officially in the LeBron James sweepstakes—that is, if the major criteria involves putting up a big sign somewhere in town asking him to come here.

Murmurs: The NBA Is Investigating Allegation Against Mark Cuban

in other news: Oregonian owners eying web paywall.

The Trippy, Weirdly Sexually Tense Blazers Documentary is Showing at Revolution Hall for Valentine’s Day

The arty Blazers documentary about the team’s 1977 championship season begins with four minutes of random drumming set over footage of Bill Walton and his teammates disembarking from a commercial flight from Los Angeles.

Are Millennials Killing Tic-Tac-Toe? Watch the Hilariously Awful Attempt at Last’s Night’s Blazers Game.

It’s the video of what is maybe the worst game of tic-tac-toe ever played that has gone viral. In it, two Blazers fans are hilariously stumped by the simple game—where each was given a stack of either Xs or Os to place on a larger-than-life game board after making a layup

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