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LaMarcus Aldridge and Damian Lillard enjoyed some success together with the Portland Trail Blazers, but their time together didn’t last all that long and didn’t end on the best terms. After three seasons as teammates, Aldridge left Portland to sign with the San Antonio Spurs in 2015. Looking back, Aldridge has one major regret about […]

Former NBA big man LaMarcus Aldridge shocked the basketball community in April 2021 when he suddenly announced that he’s walking away from the sport as a player for good. A health scare that had his heart beating irregularly during a Brooklyn Nets game against the Los Angeles Lakers on April 10 ultimately led to his […]

After Stephen Curry and Ja Morant expressed their support for Naomi Osaka, Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard also stepped up in defense of the Japanese tennis star. To recall, Osaka recently announced her withdrawal from the French Open and detailed her struggles with mental health. The decision came amid the issues surrounding her media […]

The Portland Trail Blazers will play in the most important game of their season on Tuesday when they take on the Denver Nuggets in Game 5 of their first-round series matchup. With the series tied at 2-2 and their season virtually on the line, Damian Lillard has sent a rousing rally cry for his teammates. […]

Nikola Jokic did not look like the league MVP in the Denver Nuggets’ disappointing Game 4 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers on Saturday. The 26-year-old is well aware of his shortcomings and has pledged to make the necessary adjustments heading into Game 5. Jokic acknowledged that he stepped away from his game against the […]

The Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets are battling through the first four games of their first-round series, with the series even at 2-2. The Blazers took the crucial first game of the series by 16 points and looked to be in control. Denver bounced back with a 14-point win in Game 2 to […]

The NBA welcoming back big crowds for the playoffs has helped make for some great atmospheres. However, it has also led to a number of ugly fan incidents in the past week, and now Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard is speaking out about how this can be fixed. Lillard said Monday that while it’s […]

The Portland Trail Blazers dominated Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets on Saturday, winning 115-95 and tying up the series at two. However, it wasn’t Damian Lillard who led the charge offensively. He was cold, dropping just 10 points. It was the mid-season acquisition, Norman Powell. The former Raptor had a breakout performance after starting […]

The Denver Nuggets endured a blowout loss against the Portland Trail Blazers to make the series 2-2. This has been a volatile best-of-seven battle, with neither team playing well at the same time… or very consistently. It was a tough game for the Nuggets, who played horrendously. There were many reasons the Nuggets lost this […]

The first-round matchup between the Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets has been an eye-popping series to watch. As the series is knotted up at 2-2, Game 5 will be crucial to see which team can have a 3-2 series edge. As the Nuggets have home-court advantage in the next matchup, it will be up […]

Damian Lillard is the heart and soul of the Portland Trail Blazers franchise. They’ll only go as far as he can carry them. In Game 4 against the Denver Nuggets, Lillard didn’t exactly carry them very far. He was absolutely putrid in that game, scoring just 10 points on a ghastly 1-for-10 shooting from the […]

Damian Lillard is never bashful when it comes to interacting with his fans on social media. The Portland Trail Blazers star is a very active persona online, which leads to some hilarious star-to-fan interactions. Lillard famously had a long-standing saga when he responded to a fan who claimed he had bet the equivalent of his […]

LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony have been linked together for their entire careers. Before the Los Angeles Lakers star was making endless NBA Finals runs and winning championship rings, he was pitted as the perfect rival for Melo. Now 20 years after they first met, they’re both much closer to the finish line than the […]

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard scored just 10 points in Game 4 against the Denver Nuggets, but that doesn’t matter to him since they got the win. Lillard shot 1-of-10 from the field, making most of his points (seven) from the free-throw line. While such poor production from Dame often leads to losses for […]

Portland Trail Blazers center Jusuf Nurkic isn’t letting Kendrick Perkins’ criticism of his defensive play slip by. To recall, Perkins was critical of the Bosnian big man’s lockdown ability following the Blazers’ loss to the Denver Nuggets in Game 3. Mike Malone flat out coached Terry Stotts!!! Nurkic and Kanter are the worse defensive bigs […]

It’s Carmelo Anthony’s birthday, and Portland Trail Blazers fans made sure to greet him and show their appreciation for the veteran forward who has been phenomenal for the team and the city since his arrival. During Game 4 of their first-round playoffs series with the Denver Nuggets, the fans at Moda Center belted out the […]

The Denver Nuggets head to Portland to take on the Trail Blazers in the fourth game of this best-of-seven series. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Nuggets-Blazers prediction and pick. Portland took the crucial first game of the series and stole home-court advantage from Denver. The Nuggets bounced back with […]

The past decade has been an amazing one for rap music. Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James would definitely agree to that. The same way NBA stars like Stephen Curry, James Harden, and Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Lakers star himself have defined the league throughout the 2010s, the same can be said about the likes […]

Game 3 between the Denver Nuggets and Portland Trail Blazers came down to the wire on Thursday night with the Nuggets going up 2-1 in the series. It was a hard-fought battle and Portland has to make an adjustment soon, or else they’ll fall 3-1, which could be detrimental to their playoff hopes. Portland knew […]

The Portland Trail Blazers returned home with a chance to take a 2-1 lead over the Denver Nuggets in their first-round series. Instead, the Blazers faltered after a hot start and suffered a 120-115 defeat to fall behind in the series. Blazers star Damian Lillard was hot about the officiating after the game. While Lillard […]

Nikola Jokic just put the entire Rip City under a state of calamity after leading the Denver Nuggets to a Game 3 win on Thursday, 120-115. With only 3.2 ticks remaining in the game and the Nuggets only up by three points against the Portland Trail Blazers, Montre Morris muffed the second end of his […]

The Denver Nuggets travel to the Pacific Northwest to take on the Portland Trail Blazers for Game 3 of this series. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series with a Nuggets-Blazers prediction and pick. Nikola Jokic led the way for his team on Monday night and plans to do the same on Thursday. They […]

You may not realize it, but the Portland Trail Blazers actually have a pretty rich history of fine talent. The Blazers only have one championship to their name, which came in 1977, but Portland has made three NBA Finals appearances and have had some of the best players of all-time come through the franchise. Centers, […]

The Denver Nuggets appeared to have found a way to slow down Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard. In Game 2, Nuggets head coach Michael Malone called on Aaron Gordon to take the tough task of guarding Dame, a move that seemed to work a bit. Lillard only had 10 in the second half and […]

LaMarcus Aldridge spent his first nine NBA seasons with the Portland Trail Blazers, and it’s safe to say he had the best time of his career in Rip City. With that said, Aldridge acknowledged how awesome it would be if they were to retire his jersey. Aldridge called it a career in the middle of […]

NBA legend Vince Carter was one of the most electrifying players to ever take the floor. But even Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard was able to break one of his tremendous records on Monday night against the Denver Nuggets. Dame drained eight three-pointers in the opening two quarters alone to cap off a 32-point […]

The Denver Nuggets defeated the Portland Trail Blazers 128-109 in Game 2 of the Western Conference first-round playoff series on Monday night. With the convincing win at Ball Arena, the Nuggets avoided a 0-2 deficit as the series shifts to Portland. MVP favorite Nikola Jokic led the way, per the usual, for the Nuggets with […]

On Tuesday, the 2021 NBA Draft order was nearly finalized after winners of the various tiebreakers were determined. The league conducted a series of behind the scenes coin flips to separate teams with equal regular season records. The draft lottery, set to take place on June 22, will determine the order for the top four […]

The Denver Nuggets bounced back in Game 2 on Monday night with a 128-109 statement win over the Portland Trail Blazers. But at halftime, the question was, how could the Nuggets stop Damian Lillard? He dropped 32 in the first two quarters and was showing no signs of slowing down. Aaron Gordon had an answer. […]

Game 2 between the Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets saw tensions flare throughout the night, with the officials losing control of the game in an ugly third quarter marred by 18 fouls. The Blazers suffered a 128-109 loss to even the series at 1-1 as it shifts to Portland, but they’re not going to […]

You got to feel for Damian Lillard after the Portland Trail Blazers suffered a 128-109 blowout road loss Monday to the Denver Nuggets in Game 2 of their 2021 NBA Playoffs series. Lillard went off — again — in this game, finishing with 42 points on 11-of-24 shooting from the floor with nine threes (eight […]

Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers exploded in the opening half of Game 2 against the Denver Nuggets. With the Nuggets going up early, Dame turned on his jets and went absolutely nuts to help keep his team in the game. The 30-year-old made timely buckets in the first 24 minutes, knocking down a […]

Things got heated early on in Monday’s Game 2 tilt between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets. There was no love lost between Jusuf Nurkic and his former Nuggets teammates, as the Blazers big man featured in a heated scuffle at mid-court. As both teams were heading to the bench during a timeout, […]

Trae Young knows it very well: triumph over a terrific foe leads to an emotional outburst and a great display. Some see a vigorous celebration of a game-winning shot as disrespect and poor gamesmanship. Others see it as worthy and earned statements–of talking the talk and then walking the walk. Over 25 years before Young […]

The Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets will square off for the second time in this first-round series on Monday night. It’s time to continue our NBA odds series and make a Blazers-Nuggets prediction and pick. If Game 1 was any indicator, this should be one of the most competitive series of the first round. […]

The Denver Nuggets and Portland Trail Blazers series is going to be a fun one throughout. These two teams match up well against each other which makes for thrilling basketball. Damian Lillard and the Trail Blazers lit it up on Saturday night and stole game one away from Denver. Denver played tough throughout the game […]

Denver Nuggets fans gave Portland Trail Blazers veteran Carmelo Anthony an earful during Game 1 of the first-round series on Saturday night. Nuggets fans clearly still harbor some negative feelings toward Melo, even though it has now been 10 years since he forced a trade to the New York Knicks. Anthony gave this take on […]

Damian Lillard came up large for Portland in Game 1 against the Denver Nuggets. But did anyone expect anything less from the Blazers star? Lillard finished with 34 points and 13 assists as the buoyed the Blazers all throughout the game. But Portland’s true advantage came off the bench, as their side outscored the Nuggets’ […]

Damian Lillard has a lot of respect for Nikola Jokic, which is why the Portland Trail Blazers made sure to make life hard for him in Game 1 of their first-round playoffs matchup. After Portland’s upset of the Nuggets, Dame expressed his admiration for Jokic, whom he called the clear MVP of the 2020-21 season. […]