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Damian Lillard Scored 34 Points In A Half And Blamed It On A Heckler
Last night’s game between the Blazers and Magic went about how you would have expected it to go, with Portland winning 128-114 and Damian Lillard going off for 41 points. The Blazers were comfortably ahead for almost the entire game, and the real source of drama came from a contest within the contes...
Maybe Don't Trade Players To Your Closest Conference Rival
Former Nugget and current Blazer Jusuf Nurkic smacked around his former team with 33 points and 16 rebounds last night. It was a career night for the 22-year-old big man, and one that all but assured his team will be going to the playoffs while the Nuggets sit at home and smart. But to say Nurkic ki...
Al-Farouq Aminu's Ugly Jump Shot: An Appreciation
Playoff basketball isn’t about perfection so much as compromise. If your opponent is going to attack your specific weaknesses, you counter and try to negate their strengths. Take Golden State’s comical adjustment last year where they stuck saw Andrew Bogut on Tony Allen and effectively dared him to ...
You're Gonna Need More Than Two Defenders To Stop Boogie Cousins From Dunking On You
The Kings are playing at home tonight, which means they are not resting DeMarcus Cousins and desperately trying to lose their way into keeping their pick this year. This is good news for you and me, and bad news for Al-Farouq Aminu and Mason Plumlee, who got dunked on thoroughly by Young Boogie here...
Damian Lillard Has The Best Response To Kendrick Perkins Trying To Decapitate Him
While the crazy-as-hell first round of the NCAA Tournament was finishing up, there were a bunch of NBA games on last night. I know! I’m surprised too! In one of them, the Blazers played the sad sack Pelicans, and in the fourth quarter, Kendrick Perkins tried to pop Damian Lillard’s head off....
The Warriors Were No Match For Damian Lillard
Damian Lillard and the Portland Trailblazers put a royal whooping on the Golden State Warriors last night up in Portland. Yes, the Warriors were uncharacteristically sloppy and bad. Sure, they fumbled away 13 turnovers in the third quarter alone, the most in any quarter in any game since 2008. Their...
Houston Rockets Decide As One To Just Not Play Defense
The Rockets’ pick-and-roll defense is apparently, uh, no pick-and-roll defense? At least Corey Brewer got in there and did a swipe. This isn’t as bad as that one time James Harden just sort of froze against the Knicks, but geez....
Report: Blazers Owner Paul Allen's Yacht Tore Up A Bunch Of Coral Reef
This summer, Blazers owner Paul Allen, a disgustingly rich man, donated $4 million to a research project aimed at reversing the rapid decline of coral reefs. According to the Cayman Islands’ Department of Environment, Allen’s yacht destroyed 14,000 square feet of coral reef two weeks ago. Way to go,...
Cliff "Uncle Spliffy" Robinson Is Opening A Weed Store In Portland
Oregon recently legalized weed, and the first stores catering to recreational users opened last October. You have to be 21 or older to buy, and they’re a tad restrictive on how much you can buy at one time, but it’s a rather relaxed experience. In Portland, you can get a pre-roll of decent quantity ...
Gerald Henderson Dunks On Justise Winslow From Behind The Backboard
The Heat came back in the second half to beat the Blazers in today’s matchup between the two most geographically disparate teams in the NBA. Gerald Henderson threw down this slick dunk on rookie Justise Winslow in the second quarter....
Blazers Offer Enes Kanter The Max, Stick It To The Thunder
After last night, it felt like we’d seen the last of the drama that this year’s NBA free-agency period had to offer. But then the Blazers went and signed Thunder center and restricted free agent Enes Kanter to a max offer sheet, which puts Oklahoma City’s front office in a position where they are so...
Damian Lillard Is Fearless
The Portland Trail Blazers are a very good basketball team that is fun to watch, and human firecracker Damian Lillard is a big reason why....
Let's Laugh At The Sixers Playing Completely Hapless Defense
I've been watching this on loop for a good 10 minutes, and I just now noticed that while Damian Lillard is just hanging out, probably trying to figure out if he's somehow gained the ability to freeze time, Wes Matthews is also wide fucking open in the corner. Lillard could have said, "No, this w...
Gary Neal Was <em>So Close</em> To Hitting This Buzzer Beater
The Blazers came away with a 102-100 victory over the Hornets last night, but not before Charlotte's Gary Neal had everyone convinced that the game was going to overtime. ...
Blazers Fan's Half-Court Shot Is Confounding And Terrible
A lucky Blazers fan got to take a half-court shot at last night's game, and I'm sure he would have won some kind of sweet prize if he had made the shot. He did not win a prize, though, because he somehow managed to do this: ...
Nic Batum's Dog Is A Very Good Sports Dog
If there's an upside to Nic Batum's Blazers having been eliminated from the NBA playoffs, it's that he now gets to spend much more time playing one-on-one games with his doggie. Based on this clip, his doggie is a very good doggie....
Kawhi Leonard, Who Is The Future, Ran The Blazers Off The Floor
If you didn't catch any of the Spurs' series-clinching win over the Blazers last night—yet another perfectly orchestrated, Spursian blowout—the only highlight you really need to watch is the one above....
Damian Lillard Going To The Rim Makes No Damn Sense
Kevin Harlan has the best jump-stop in the NBA. The timing is generally easier; spend enough years talking through NBA games and you'll get a feel for the cadence of a pick-and-roll, or how to ride out the crowd noise after a big play. But Harlan is great because when that timing gets thrown off and...
Rockets Fans Go Through Emotional Wringer Of Parsons And Lillard Shots
This is heartbreaking and absolutely hilarious. These guys are so fired up for the Chandler Parsons shot that gave Houston the momentary lead in last night's game that it makes the reference-room silence after the Lillard buzzer-beater devastatingly funny. Unless you're a Rockets fan, obviously. ...
Front-Row View Of Damian Lillard's Buzzer-Beater Is Awesome
This Vine is awesome. It's a court-level view of Damian Lillard curling around a screen, clapping for the ball, and sinking the game-winning buzzer-beater from behind the arc against Houston last night. Everything about it is perfect. The angle, the clapping, the shot, the buzzer and mostly, the cro...