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Can the Trail Blazers Win Playoff Games if They Won’t Play Defense?

There is no clear path toward improving the defense from among-the-worst to below-average-but-passable.

Most Things Are Worse This Christmas. The Blazers Might Be Better.

General manager Neil Olshey spent the offseason going all the way in and outfitting the squad to take a real stab at contending.

We Went to Blazers Media Day and Asked Players About Their Favorite Portland Restaurants

There is one thing our city can claim—one hot magnet that, if promoted properly, could presumably attract stars from all over the world: We have some damn good-ass restaurants.

Who Do We Blame for the Portland Trail Blazers Turning Into a Flaming Bag of Dog Turds?

No one, NO ONE looks more vulnerable than Neil Olshey, the architect of this tower of nonsense. Paul Allen love firing GMs. Loves it. And in a case like this, its hard to watch and not think that the central problem with this squad is how it was constructed.

Rise With Us…Again

How did a team sporting the lowest payroll in the NBA, whose only extraordinary offseason assets were a ton of cap space and a young but not that young all-star, grab the whole damn NBA by the face, like some kind of starving dog?

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