Blazer players have developed, but their coach has, too
There is little question that Chauncey Billups is a different coach than he was when he took over the Trail Blazers in 2021.
Under J.B. Bickerstaff, not the same old Pistons
News flash: The Detroit Pistons are good.
It was Tribute Night at Moda Center, and Bill would have approved
For a night, Bill Walton was alive again at Moda Center, living through his family, his friends, his former teammates and the Trail Blazer fans.
Some ‘bumps in the road,’ but Clingan is one of Blazers’ important Young Guns
On a Sunday afternoon when the best in the West came calling, some of the Trail Blazers “Young Guns” rose to the challenge.
On Jeff Young and the Ducks, Mike Riley on John Robinson, the Blazers’ rise and more …
Notes, quotes and observations on happenings in our sports world …
Trail Blazer players want to ‘win now,’ but that won’t happen
The Trail Blazers’ annual media day was held Monday in the Fountain Room at Memorial Coliseum.
Another losing season for Blazers? Tanks a lot
Mercifully, the Trail Blazers’ season has ended.
Blazers bag a big win, but this game was about Dame
In an NBA regular season, every team plays 82 games. Some of them are big, a few of them really big.
With playoff chances not worth a hoot, Blazers aim to develop Scoot
Another Trail Blazer season is almost upon us.
Blazers end another forgetful season — and now the work begins
If they get the No. 1 pick in the June 22 draft — they have a 10.5 percent chance — they will take 7-4 French wunderkind Victor Wembanyama. And keep him.
On Hanneman’s week in Pittsburgh, Blazers’ defense, follow-up Vegas Bowl notes
Craig Hanneman knew he was going to Pittsburgh for the Steelers’ 50-year anniversary celebration of the “Immaculate Reception.”
Lillard is Blazers’ biggest scorer — Who is the G.O.A.T player for the Trail Blazers?
The wait is over. In his 11th NBA season, Damian Lillard is the Trail Blazers’ career scoring leader, having passed Clyde “The Glide” Drexler last week at Oklahoma City.
Blazers’ focus is Sharpe in what they hope is a major draft night coup
The important phrase to remember: “Time will tell.”
Through a dismal Blazer season, Brooks says he still loves it here
For nearly three decades, Scott Brooks made visits to Portland to play against the Trail Blazers — for the first 10 years as a player, then another 18 as a coach.
Schonz calls it a career: ‘Good night, everybody!’
As would be expected, Bill Schonely did not have the most restful night of sleep on Sunday.
Larry Brown looks out front window, lands on Memphis Tigers’ bench
Larry Brown is more than a basketball lifer.
Pros vs. Joes No. 13: Despite the Blazers’ rocky road, Brooke Olzendam’s having a ball
If there is a poster person of popularity among fans in the Trail Blazers organization these days, it’s probably not a player or coach.
Talking sports: Trail Blazers trading frenzy, MLB strike and Adley Rutschman, Pioneers’ Jay Locey to the USFL
Weighing in some sporting issues of the day …
• There must be a method to Joe Cronin’s madness.
Or as Ricky Ricardo might say, “Somebody’s got some ‘splainin’ to do.”
Covering a number of subjects, including bad basketball in Oregon, the Trail Blazers’ future, Dan Burke, Gary Payton II, Patty Mills, Nike & Alberto Salazar …
A few sporting items on my mind as we ring in the new year …
• The state of Oregon is known for some pretty good basketball, but its major teams are displaying little of it so far this season.
Should Buck Williams be a Hall of Famer? Says Fordham Prep’s sports analytics club: ‘Yes’
Those in Portland in the 1990s recall Charles Linwood “Buck” Williams as the lunch-bucket power forward whose acquisition proved the missing link in the Trail Blazers’ rise to NBA Finals in ’90 and ’92.