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The Portland Trail Blazers had a very disappointing 2021-22 season. After eight straight playoff appearances, the Blazers went 27-55 and ended up 13th in the Western Conference. After Damian Lillard went down with a long-term injury, Portland pivoted toward a major retooling by trading away CJ McCollum, Norman Powell, and Robert Covington to tank the […]

Damian Lillard is currently in the middle of his four-year, $176,265,152 contract with the Portland Trail Blazers. And, he’s expected to accept an impending two-year extension worth over $100 million this offseason. However, according to recent rumors, Lillard is waiting to see what other offseason moves the Trail Blazers’ front office makes before extending his […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have done a nice job of adding pieces and retaining others so far this summer. They’ve traded for Jerami Grant, drafted Shaedon Sharpe, and extend both Anfernee Simons and Jusuf Nurkic while also signing defensive lynchpin Gary Payton II in Free Agency. Nevertheless, it appears Damian Lillard isn’t totally sold on […]

Even before Kevin Durant put in a trade request with the Brooklyn Nets front office, the Portland Trail Blazers were already trying to convince him to come over. Both Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic took to social media like your run-of-the-mill fan and posted KD photoshopped in Blazers gear. Now with the trade request made […]

When Kevin Durant rumors about leaving the Brooklyn Nets spread across the internet, Jusuf Nurkic was part of the contingent of fans clamoring him to come join his team. He tweeted out a photo of Durant in a Portland Trail Blazers uniform alongside Damian Lillard. Jusuf Nurkic, however, was still a free agent. Technically, he […]

Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers are still together despite plenty of trade rumors over the years. Lillard has been one of the most discussed players in hypothetical trades over the past 4-5 seasons. And many expected the Blazers to finally cut the cord with him after trading CJ McCollum during the 2021-2022 campaign. […]

Last season, Damian Lillard played just 29 games for the Portland Trail Blazers before his season was cut short by injury. Well, it looks like Dame is looking forward to making up for all the lost time. Lillard’s revenge season has started. A clip of the 31-year-old working out in the gym is currently making its […]

The Portland Trail Blazers already made a splash this offseason by trading for Detroit Pistons star Jerami Grant. Now, they look ahead to retaining a couple of key free agents: Jusuf Nurkic and Anfernee Simons. As Marc Stein notes, there is expected to be no shortage of interest in the Blazers duo. However, both are […]

Let’s get one thing straight. Kevin Durant is one of the greatest players to ever play the game of basketball. He could retire at this very moment, or heck even three years ago and he’d still end up being a first-ballot Hall of Famer. While he owns one of the most decorated resumes of any […]

The NBA world got its everyday fill of drama this past Saturday morning, when Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic engaged in a little tampering session. The Blazers duo both posted an image of Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant in a Portland jersey. The intent is clear: Dame wants KD to go to his city. This […]

Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers made headlines on Saturday night after they were linked to a potential swoop on Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant. All this started when Dame posted a photoshopped image of KD in a Blazers jersey, and naturally, it led to NBA fans drawing up all sorts of Durant-to-Portland scenarios. […]

Kevin Durant grew closer with Damian Lillard last suymmer while leading Team USA to gold at the Tokyo Olympics, and still has a public, personal affinity for the Pacific Northwest well more than a decade after being drafted by the Seattle Supersonics. Still, odds of the two-time Finals MVP putting the Portland Trail Blazers on […]

Although the Kevin Durant sweepstakes have not yet started, every team is keeping their eye on his situation with him, Kyrie Irving the Brooklyn Nets. The Portland Trail Blazers are one of those teams. Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic are making it extremely clear that they want Durant. Nurkic and Lillard shared a photoshopped image of […]

The Portland Trail Blazers ended what is one of the most disappointing seasons in recent franchise history. Due to various factors, such as injuries and midseason trades, the Blazers ended outside of the playoffs for the first time in the last nine years. Clearly, the team is in need of an overhaul and the front […]

The Portland Trail Blazers rocked Rip City on Thursday night, taking preeminent mystery man Shaedon Sharpe with the seventh overall pick of the 2022 NBA draft. But just because the Blazers made their most controversial possible selection hardly means it was the wrong one. Sharpe, in fact, is the perfect pick for Portland. There isn’t […]

After plenty of rumors, the Portland Trail Blazers finally pulled off the Jerami Grant trade, acquiring him from the Detroit Pistons in exchange for a 2025 first-round pick via the Milwaukee Bucks. The Blazers are trying to retool around Damian Lillard, and Grant gives them a rangy wing who should help improve their defense while […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are set to make a bit of noise in the offseason, and Lu Dort might be headed over to team up with Damian Lillard. Nothing is set in stone just yet. The Blazers are actually targeting Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby. Portland is willing to part with the No. 7 pick […]

Another pivotal summer for the Portland Trail Blazers got off to a rousing start on Wednesday, as the team filled its gaping hole on the wing by nabbing Jerami Grant in a pre-draft trade with the Detroit Pistons. Grant’s acquisition is hardly surprising by itself. He’d been linked to the Blazers in persistent trade rumors […]

It’s no secret that the Portland Trail Blazers will be busy in the offseason as they look to build their roster around superstar point guard Damian Lillard. Portland has already been linked to a number of big names around the league, and right now, they appear to be interested in joining the race for a […]

After winning two of the first three games of the 2022 NBA Finals, the Boston Celtics lost three in a row and watched the Golden State Warriors hoist the NBA championship right on their home turf. The Celtics must have wondered what went wrong in those last three losses and how they can get over […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have already been linked to every major name who could be changing teams this summer. Zach LaVine and Bradley Beal could be the star Portland so desperately wants to pair with Damian Lillard. Jerami Grant and OG Anunoby are the versatile three-and-D forwards who’d give the Blazers some much-needed point-of-attack defense. […]

There’s no denying that during his heyday, JJ Redick was one of the most dangerous marksmen in the NBA. He knows a thing or two about shooting from distance, and we should put a lot of stock in what he thinks about Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry and his greatness. Redick recently guested on […]

Damian Lillard has spent almost his entire career as the better half of one of basketball’s most dynamic yet smallest backcourts. After finally trading C.J. McCollum at the trade deadline, the Portland Trail Blazers are nevertheless poised to keep Lillard in those confines for the foreseeable future by signing Anfernee Simons to a massive, multi-year […]

The Portland Trail Blazers and Damian Lillard are still committed to each other. Back in April, Lillard stated his desire to remain with the franchise, admitting that he has no plans to leave. However, Lillard might have other big plans. According to Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer, Lillard has three players in mind who he wants […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are dangerously close to missing their championship window. Dame Lillard is now 31-years-old and missed all but 29 games this season due to injury. The organization elected to use it as a rebuilding year and handed the reigns to Anfernee Simons. The 27-55 record left the franchise out of the postseason […]

The Portland Trail Blazers did not luck out in the lottery after their rebuilding season in 2021-22. Their 27-55 record was the sixth-worst in the NBA. They left the draft lottery with the seventh overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. While most of the focus falls on this first-round selection, the Trail Blazers also […]

New Orleans Pelicans guard CJ McCollum made his first appearance on ESPN’s First Take recently and he had quite a few things to say. One of his more contentious statements centered around players sitting out games when healthy. The 30-year-old veteran got brutally honest in his message as he described how this processed work during his […]

The Portland Trail Blazers don’t have the assets to trade for another superstar, and creating the cap space needed to sign a top-tier free agent outright—like rumored target Zach LaVine, for instance—would force general manager Joe Cronin to decimate the roster’s existing core. Under immense pressure to justify Damian Lillard’s re-commitment to Rip City and […]

Damian Lillard’s former coach for the Portland Trail Blazers, Terry Stotts, appears to be in pole position to land the head coaching job for the Los Angeles Lakers. According to reports, Stotts took a major step towards becoming LeBron James’ next head coach on Tuesday as he flew to Los Angeles for an interview with […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have little to show for one of the most shameless tanking efforts in NBA history. Joe Cronin and the front office didn’t prematurely shut down Portland’s best players with minor injuries and empower multiple G-League call-ups en route to a laughable 2-21 record after the All-Star break just to get the […]

The Dallas Mavericks are in the midst of a heated Game 2 against the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals. The Mavs came out firing in the first half and had a substantial lead heading into the tunnel, with the rotation thriving in every way imaginable, especially Luka Doncic and Jalen Brunson. In […]

The Portland Trail Blazers’ historic post-All-Star tanking efforts didn’t pay off the way Joe Cronin and company imagined. All Portland has to show for its 2-21 finish to the regular season is the seventh selection in the draft come June 23rd, a stark disappointment for a team that entered lottery night with the sixth-best odds […]

The Portland Trail Blazers entered lottery night already down one high-value first-round pick they initially expected to have. Worse, by the time the proceedings were over, Portland also emerged on the wrong side of ping-pong ball luck. The Blazers “won” the No. 7 overall pick on Tuesday night, falling a slot in the 2022 NBA […]

The Charlotte Hornets are one of a couple of teams from around the league that are still looking for a new head coach. According to reports, the organization has now turned its attention to Damian Lillard’s former coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. According to NBA insider Shams Charania of The Athletic, Terry Stotts is […]

The Portland Trail Blazers were dealt a tough blow during the 2022 NBA Draft lottery and nobody was more bummed about it than Damian Lillard. Not only did the Blazers fail to move up to the top four spots, they also fell even lower than their projected sixth pick. Lillard was Portland’s representative at the […]

Damian Lillard has never been shy to profess admiration for his NBA peers. The Portland Trail Blazers superstar has frequently praised the likes of LeBron James, Steph Curry and Draymond Green throughout his career, and just singled out Giannis Antetokounmpo as the player he’d most like to team up with in the postseason. Few players in […]

The ugly reality is that the Portland Trail Blazers are unlikely to compete for a title next season almost no matter what happens this summer. General manager Joe Cronin and the front office are expected to be very aggressive in seeking roster upgrades before 2022-23, but Portland lacks both the team-building assets and incumbent talent […]

The Portland Trail Blazers and Damian Lillard have a bit of complicated history together. With Dame Time in tow, the team enjoyed great regular season success. However, despite the obvious skills of these teams, they were never quite able to make it over the hump. This failure to launch into championship greatness is one of […]

Count Damian Lillard in among several others who were impressed by Jayson Tatum’s epic performance on Friday to help the Boston Celtics force a Game 7 against the Milwaukee Bucks. Tatum exploded for 46 points in the 105-98 win, ruining the party for Giannis Anteteokounmpo who had 44 points and 20 rebounds. The Celtics superstar […]