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Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin on Thursday defended Blazers owner Tom Dundon against reports criticizing the new owner for recent cost-cutting measures and characterizing him as cheap. Since Dundon took the reins of the franchise on March 31, reports and speculation have flooded in about the ownership group’s inclination to save money and […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock this week, you know that the NBA is now considering a draft lottery system that smooths out the odds for all teams participating in the lottery and favors teams who finish in the middle of the lottery order instead of the teams with the best and worst records […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are conducting their end-of-season media availability session this morning at 10 a.m. PDT. Blazers general manager Joe Cronin, acting head coach Tiago Splitter and select players will take the podium to field questions about the 2025-26 campaign and what’s in store for the future of the franchise. This discussion thread is […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are scheduled to hold their end-of-season media availability session on Thursday at 10 a.m. PDT. Blazers general manager Joe Cronin, acting head coach Tiago Splitter and select players will speak at the event. Blazer’s Edge will be there to provide coverage, but the interviews will also be streamed live on the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers’ season may have ended on Tuesday night. But the beat of the NBA Playoffs drums on, regardless. Three more postseason games are on the slate tonight. Hang out here and discuss all the action with fellow fans! Here’s the game info (all start times are Pacific): No. 8 Orlando Magic @ […]
The Portland Trail Blazers have completed their 2025-26 season with a 42-40 record, a NBA Play-In Tournament victory over the Phoenix Suns, and a 3-1 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs. Compared to recently-passed seasons, this year was practically a masterpiece for the Blazers. They set […]
The Portland Trail Blazers ended their 2025-26 season last night with a 114-95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the 2026 NBA Playoffs. There will be plenty of time to let the offseason sink in. Today we’re going to take time for an immediate, though right-brained, question from the Blazer’s […]
Yesterday news broke that the NBA is considering a semi-radical change to the Draft Lottery system to reduce the incentive for teams to “tank” in order to receive better lottery odds. You can read about the details of the proposal here. Basically the new rules would expand the lottery to 16 teams (including some Play-In […]
If the Portland Trail Blazers could have surrendered at halftime in Game 5 of their first-round playoffs series against the San Antonio Spurs, they might have taken that offer just to catch an earlier flight back to Portland. Over the course of four quarters, the Blazers trimmed a 28-point Spurs lead down to 9, but […]
The Portland Trail Blazers end their 2025-26 season with a 114 – 95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Tuesday night. The Spurs never trailed in the game and were clearly the better team this evening and throughout the series. Deni Avdija led the Blazers with 22 points while De’Aaron Fox had 21 for the […]
Game 5 between the Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs is halfway finished. A loss tonight would end Portland’s season. Will they pull it out and force Game 6? You can talk about the action here with your friends and neighbors! Here’s the basic info on the game: Portland Trail Blazers at San Antonio […]
One of the strongly-stated priorities of the NBA during the 2025-26 season has been to combat tanking, intentional losing to gain more favorable odds in the annual NBA Draft Lottery. Once considered a minor annoyance participated in by 2-3 teams every year, tanking has swept the league, with more than a third of the NBA’s […]
The Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs will play Game 5 of their best-of-seven NBA Playoffs series tonight. So far for the Blazers it’s been worst-of-seven. Portland trails 3-1 in the series. A loss tonight would end their season. Will they make a comeback to force Game 6? You can talk about the action […]
For those following the saga of suspended Portland Trail Blazers Coach Chauncey Billups, one of the figures who was indicted on federal gambling charges last fall—ex-NBA player Damon Jones—pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to illegal gambling. Jones is the first defendant in the NBA-related cases to admit his […]
The Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs will play the fifth, and perhaps final, game in their first-round 2026 NBA Playoffs series this evening. The Spurs lead 3-1. Portland is on the brink of elimination. Before the festivities commence and/or end, we have one more conversation with J.R. Wilco of Blazer’s Edge sister site […]
The Portland Trail Blazers head to San Antonio tonight to take on the Spurs with their season on the line. The Blazers have shown that they can win in the Alamo City, where they took Game 2 of their opening-round NBA Playoffs series last week. After that 106-103 victory, there appeared to be an unexpectedly […]
Dallas Mavericks rookie forward Cooper Flagg has been announced as the NBA Rookie of The Year for the 2025-26 season, with 412 points on the voting ballot. Flagg, who turned 19 back in December, won the prestigious award over his college teammate and close friend, Kon Knueppel of the Charlotte Hornets. Knueppel was the runner-up […]
The NBA Playoffs continue tonight with three more games on tap! In the Eastern Conference, the Detroit Pistons will try to avoid falling into a 3-1 series hole against the rejuvenated Orlando Magic. Then in the Western Conference, the Oklahoma City Thunder face the Phoenix Suns, followed by a matchup between the Denver Nuggets and […]
Portland Trail Blazers All-Star Deni Avdija commented on his late-game altercation with Stephon Castle during Portland’s 114-93 home loss to the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday in the first round of the NBA Playoffs. On the play, Avdija was whistled for a foul on a Castle layup attempt at the 2:13 mark of the fourth […]
The Portland Trail Blazers currently find themselves in an unenviable position in the midst of their NBA Playoffs series with the San Antonio Spurs. Down 3-1 in the best-of-seven, first-round affair, they face an elimination game tomorrow on the road against a hostile crowd, a confident opponent, and generational talent Victor Wembanyama. The turn for […]
It happened again. No, not the fact the Portland Trail Blazers blew a double-digit second-half lead for the second time in less than 48 hours this weekend in the NBA Playoffs against the San Antonio Spurs. I’m talking about an issue that has plagued this team game after game this season like Groundhog Day. An […]
The Portland Trail Blazers gave away their chances of winning the first-round series against the San Antonio Spurs, along with the greater part of their dignity, in a 114-93 loss on Sunday afternoon. For the second straight game, the Blazers built an enormous lead in the first half, then spent the second half frittering it […]
The Portland Trail Blazers, backs truly against the proverbial wall, once again failed to hold on to a big lead onn Sunday, losing to the San Antonio Spurs at home 114-93. The Spurs were simply much better in the second half in every phase of the game. A good, energetic start saw the Blazers go […]
Let’s chat about the second half of Game 4 of Blazers vs. Spurs here! Here’s the basic info on the game: No. 7 Portland Trail Blazers vs No. 2 San Antonio Spurs – Sunday, April 26th – 12:30pm Pacific How to watch via streaming: ESPN How to listen: Rip City Radio 620AM Trail Blazers Injuries: Damiam Lillard (Out). Spurs […]
San Antonio Spurs star Victor Wembanyama has cleared concussion protocol and is available to play this afternoon in Game 4 against the Portland Trail Blazers in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, ESPN’s Shams Charania and Malika Andrews reported. Wembanyama passed his neurological tests going through stages of protocol after sustaining a concussion Tuesday […]