Portland Trail Blazers
Former Portland Trail Blazers center and NBA Hall of Famer Bill Walton wasn’t much of an orator during the team’s championship parade in 1977. He was so overcome with emotion that he could only ask for his motorcycle after it got lost in the crowd.
Bill Walton turned down an enormous offer from the ABA to leave UCLA after his junior year. In his memoir, Walton said the maverick league offered him his own team.
Following an offseason full of questions and an abundance of trade rumors, the Portland Trail Blazers have officially begun preparations under first-year head coach Chauncey Billups. Star point guard Damian Lillard, a subject of ample trade chatter, offered encouraging insights into Billups’ coaching style, which could pay big dividends for the Blazers.
Becky Hammon will be the first female head coach in NBA history, but only on her .
NBA legend Reggie Miller thinks the LA Lakers should target CJ McCollum instead of pursuing Damian Lillard because he’d be a better fit with LeBron James and Anthony Davis. If Miller was running the Lakers, he would trade Kyle Kuzma and Dennis Schroder for McCollum and make sure to keep Talen Horton-Tucker and Alex Caruso.
Damian Lillard is caught in the middle of a drama about his future with the Portland Trail Blazers, a situation made worse by an ESPN report that was later corrected.
Michael Jordan’s famous shrug came after he blew off broadcaster Marv Albert earlier in the day.
Damian Lillard sounds like he wants to find another NBA team, and Blazers teammate Jusuf Nurkic is in the same boat.
Damian Lillard clapped back at a on Twitter who said that it was his idea to consider Jason Kidd and Chaunucey Billups for the Portland Trail Blazers next head coach. This is a bad sign for Portland when combined with recent reports of the star’s unhappiness may mean he wants out of the Northwest.
NBA veteran Nicolas Batum vividly re watching his father die on the basketball court at two years old and used it as motivation for a pro career of his own.
