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One week after finally admitting Damian Lillard’s season was over, the Portland Trail Blazers clarified the status of two other franchise pillars who have been sidelined with nagging injuries. The Blazers announced on Monday that Anfernee Simons (left knee patellar tendinopathy) and Jusuf Nurkic (left foot plantar fasciitis) would miss the remainder of 2021-22. Some […]

When Damian Lillard returns to the Portland Trail Blazers next season, he’ll be met by a way different team compared to what he started this 2021-22. The Rip City squad started a major overhaul by trading a few key players in order to acquire assets and potentially speed up rebuilding their roster around Dame. Despite […]

Greetings NBA fans! No, you are not seeing double, nor are you experiencing Deja Vu. In fact, the Houston Rockets will be tipping off for the second straight night in Portland against the Trail Blazers in back-to-back night action! Check out our NBA odds series, where our Rockets-Trail Blazers pick and prediction will be revealed. The […]

The Houston Rockets will take on the Portland Trail Blazers on Friday night. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Rockets-Trail Blazers prediction and pick. This is one of the few games on the Friday slate that doesn’t mean a whole lot. The Rockets, owners of an 18-55 record, haven’t played […]

The Portland Trail Blazers had lots of pressure to perform well this season with Damian Lillard. It has gone very poorly, though it has a lot to do with Lillard’s extended absence. Lillard has played just 29 games this season and has been sidelined with an abdominal strain since December. His injury has left the […]

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has endured a tough season. Lillard started off the year with some uncharacteristically shaky shooting performances, upon which it was revealed that he was playing through an abdominal injury, which ultimately required surgery. There was hope that the Blazers star would return for this season, though the team recently […]

The Portland Trail Blazers were very interested in acquiring Detroit Pistons star Jerami Grant at the trade deadline, but he ultimately stayed put. The forward could move on this summer though, with a variety of different teams interested. That being said, the Blazers are still seen as a frontrunner for Grant as they look to […]

The Indiana Pacers beat the Portland Trail Blazers 129-98 Sunday night. After the loss, Jusuf Nurkic got into an altercation with a Pacers fan, which ended in the Blazers center throwing the fan’s phone towards the stands. The NBA fined Nurkic $40 thousand for his postgame actions and announced the decision Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after […]

Sunday night, the Indiana Pacers destroyed the Portland Trail Blazers in a 129-98 blowout win. Although he didn’t play in the loss, Blazers’ Jusuf Nurkic made headlines Sunday night just moments after the final buzzer. The Portland center was caught on camera confronting a heckling Pacers fan. Nurkic gets very close to the fan before […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are currently a team that just about no one recognizes due to the departure of CJ McCollum and Norman Powell, while Damian Lillard is sidelined due to injury. But, it shouldn’t be like that for long as the organization plans to bring in a few big pieces this offseason, with one […]

The Portland Trail Blazers had a key decision to make regarding star point guard Damian Lillard. Lillard has not featured in a single game in 2022 after having undergone abdominal surgery in early January. With just 12 games left on the docket for the Trail Blazers, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reported Monday that the superstar point […]

Jusuf Nurkic was in no mood. The Portland Trail Blazers center went right at an Indiana Pacers fan for heckling him earlier in the game. Check out the Bosnian Blazers big man walk straight up to a courtside fan and chuck his phone: Nurk 😳 pic.twitter.com/xFKNChXGli — NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) March 21, 2022 While it’s unclear […]

The Portland Trail Blazers played some of their best basketball of the season on Friday night. With Damian Lillard, Anfernee Simons and Jusuf Nurkic watching from the bench, though, it was always going to be a matter of time until Kevin Durant and company responded. Portland fell to the Brooklyn Nets 128-123 at Barclays Center, […]

The Portland Trail Blazers lost for the eighth time in their last nine games on Wednesday, getting blown out 128-98 by the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden. Another 30-point defeat marks the seventh such loss of that stretch, one defined by the organization’s overarching efforts to tank—and most manifested on the floor through […]

Anfernee Simons’ may have already played his last game in 2021-22. The Portland Trail Blazers announced last Friday that he’d be “re-evaluated in 1-2 weeks” after an MRI confirmed a prior diagnosis of mild patellar tendinopathy in his left knee, but the organization’s brazen efforts to tank suggest Simons is likelier to take the floor […]

The Portland Trail Blazers’ utmost organizational priority from now until the end of the regular season definitely isn’t winning. You wouldn’t have known it watching Josh Hart and the “baby” Blazers go punch-for-punch with a team that made the Eastern Conference Finals last season, though. Portland fell to the Atlanta Hawks 122-113 on Monday night […]

The injury-ravaged Portland Trail Blazers are signing veteran guard Kris Dunn to a 10-day contract, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported on Sunday. The Trail Blazers are signing guard Kris Dunn to a 10-day hardship deal, sources tell ESPN. Dunn gives the Blazers some backcourt depth with Anfernee Simons out 1-to-2 weeks. — Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) March […]

The Portland Trail Blazers decided to blow up their team. Although reports suggest they will be looking to build around Damian Lillard, the rest of their old core is gone. CJ McCollum is in New Orleans, Norman Powell in Los Angeles, and Jusuf Nurkic could be gone this summer. They are left with Anfernee Simons, […]

A beaming Josh Hart didn’t mince words after playing the best basketball of his life. Leading the Portland Trail Blazers to a 127-118 win over the Washington Wizards, breaking a depressingly historic six-game losing streak in the process, was definitely what’s most important. But considering the last points of his career night came with 6:49 […]

With the Portland Trail Blazers badly needed a spark to their season, Josh Hart answered the call, setting a career-high in points with 44. However, true to Hart’s comedic nature, his impressive play might not even be the highlight of his epic night. For context, Josh Hart achieved a stat-line that has never been seen […]

After witnessing Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson and Portland Trail Blazers wing Josh Hart put up 40-plus points for their respective teams on Saturday, some fans couldn’t believe that the Los Angeles Lakers let them go. While it has been years since the Lakers traded both Clarkson and Hart in their bid to create a […]

The last time Anfernee Simons took the floor was the last time the Portland Trail Blazers actually looked like they belong in the NBA. That’s not a criticism of the second-round picks, undrafted free agents and G-League call-ups who have comprised Portland’s woefully depleted roster over the last few days, or even an aspersion on […]

The Portland Trail Blazers have had a rough go this season and the chaos just won’t stop. This franchise could be entering a rebuild in the upcoming offseason with Anfernee Simons as a potential building block. However, for Portland’s next game, they will be without their young rising star. According to Casey Holdahl, Anfernee Simons […]

On January 30th, Joe Ingles tore his ACL. Just 12 days later, the Utah Jazz traded him to the Portland Trail Blazers, and to this day, the Aussie regrets it ever happened. Ingles spent his entire eight-year NBA career in Salt Lake City, and still lives just 10 minutes from Vivint Arena as he continues […]

The Portland Trail Blazers didn’t just enter Wednesday’s action as losers of five straight, engaging in tank mode no holds barred. Their aggregate deficit dating back to the All-Star break was the largest of all time over any team’s five-game stretch since the league’s inception. Let’s just say no one was surprised when Portland kept […]

The Utah Jazz host the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night! It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Blazers-Jazz prediction and pick. Portland is coming off an embarrassing loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves 124-81 two nights ago and lost to them the game before as well. It’s been a tough stretch for […]

Officially, the Portland Trail Blazers are still leaving the door open for Damian Lillard to return before season’s end. The team announced late last month that Lillard had passed the “initial phase” of rehabilitation from mid-January surgery on his abdomen, and would soon begin the “reconditioning phase” of his recovery. The first week of March […]

The Portland Trail Blazers entered their two-game set with the Minnesota Timberwolves at Target Center one-and-a-half games back of the final spot in the Western Conference play-in tournament. Portland would be underdogs no matter what with Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic sidelined, but at least Minnesota’s absences—Anthony Edwards and Patrick Beverly missed Saturday’s game—ensured it […]

No one expected the Portland Trail Blazers to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves. They’ve been awful offensively with Anfernee Simons off the floor since the New Year, and Portland’s latest star shot-maker joined Damian Lillard, Jusuf Nurkic, Nassir Little and Justise Winslow on the sidelines Monday night with a left quad contusion. Considering the impressive fight […]

The Portland Trail Blazers are one of the more stable playoff teams in the NBA. Well, at least, they were up until this season. The Blazers entered 2021-22 having made the playoffs in eight straight seasons, the longest active streak in the NBA. But they traded away C.J. McCollum, Norman Powell and other key contributors […]

The Portland Trail Blazers finally ran out of gas in the fourth quarter on Saturday night, falling to Karl-Anthony Towns and the Minnesota Timberwolves 135-121. Don’t mistake another double-digit loss, Portland’s fourth straight, for any of its more lopsided predecessors, though. Not only did the Blazers put up a hard road fight against a quality […]

The New Orleans Pelicans are slowly creeping up the standings of late thanks in large part to the massive contributions of one CJ McCollum. The NBA trade deadline acquisition from the Portland Trail Blazers has played like a man possessed. In nine games with the Pelicans, CJ McCollum is averaging 26.3 points, 5.8 rebounds, 5.8 […]

Chris Paul is out at least another month with a broken right thumb, and Devin Booker entered health and safety protocols hours before tipoff. Even with their opponent absent both members of basketball’s best backcourt, though, the depleted, rebuilding Portland Trail Blazers were still sent to a third straight blowout loss. The Phoenix Suns routed […]

The Phoenix Suns host the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night! It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Blazers-Suns prediction and pick. Click here for our Risk Free $1000 Bet! *To claim, new users need to register, make a first deposit, and then simply place their first real-money wager on FanDuel Sportsbook […]

As the James Harden and Ben Simmons drama ended at the trade deadline, the NBA world did not have to wait long for the newest drama to begin. The New Orleans Pelicans are in the midst of a serious situation with their star, Zion Williamson. The All-Star forward is yet to play for the Pelicans […]

Nikola Jokic only played 26 minutes against the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday night. The streaking Denver Nuggets, now winners of six straight games, didn’t need him in the fourth quarter of their 124-92 victory. But if some late-game heroics were required from the reigning MVP, it’s safe to say Chauncey Billups believes his depleted […]

Damian Lillard and trade rumors: name a more iconic duo. The Portland Trail Blazers star has been the subject of speculation for as long as he’s been with the team. Countless fans and “analysts” have advocated for Lillard to stay with his original or, more popularly, for Lillard to demand a trade. For other members […]

Damian Lillard is making his way toward full health while from abdominal surgery. What that means for his potential return to the floor this season, though, the Portland Trail Blazers still won’t officially confirm. Portland announced on Sunday that Lillard has passed the “initial phase” of his rehabilitation “without setback,” and will be re-evaluated in […]

The Portland Trail Blazers led 32-31 after the first quarter of Thursday’s game, putting up an early fight against the Golden State Warriors despite all odds and expectations otherwise. Once Chauncey Billups was forced to go to his bench, though, the realities of an outwardly tanking team facing off against a surefire title contender quickly […]