Playoffs 27

Maybe it was the air up there. The Trail Blazers were in mile high city for game one of the semi finals vs the Denver Nuggets and it showed. Damian Lillard had 39 points, but he didn’t look himself at all. He surely wasn’t the take no prisoners Damian we saw in game 5 of […]

  The Portland Trail Blazers had a choice to make: 3rd or 4th seed? They could lose (or win with a Denver loss) and play the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs or win and take on the Oklahoma City Thunder instead. They decided in dramatic fashion. Terry Stotts opted to rest […]

  The Portland Trail Blazers came to Oklahoma City for game 3. They got a taste, to remind themselves what the Thunder were like on their home court. The stuck their foot in the water. It was cold. They took their time getting in. OKC got the better of them while they acclimated. The Blazers […]

The last time the Portland Trail Blazers won game 1 of the western conference first round, was 5 years ago, 6 days from now, on April 20th, 2014 against the number four Houston Rockets, on the road. The last time the Blazers won a game 1 on their home court, in 2000 vs the Minnesota […]

  If there was any doubt that Lillard was the best player in the Blazers/Thunder series, it was irrevocably removed Tuesday night. Erased. A non question. For all the recognition Paul George and Russell Westbrook received by pundits and media, Damian Lillard stole the Thunder. He was the MVP, in the Blazers 118-115 game 5 […]