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Blazers guard CJ McCollum thinks unrestricted free agent to-be Paul George will be playing in Los Angeles next season. While guesting on the Woj Pod, McCollum added that he stopped recruiting George. “[PG] left me on red receipt,” he laughed. Starting at 27:00: Do the Blazers need Paul George to compliment you and Damian Lillard? [R...
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• Blazers salary cap breakdown heading into '18 offseason
The Trail Blazers were hardly alone in spending extravagantly during the 2016 offseason, but their investments – C.J. McCollum, Evan Turner, Maurice Harkless, Meyers Leonard, and Allen Crabbe – have proven particularly onerous. Those aren’t all bad deals, and Crabbe has since been traded, but the Blazers’ big contracts have hamstrung the team’s abi...
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• Blazers’ Neil Olshey discusses offseason approach
The Trail Blazers may adjust their roster-building strategy to some extent during the 2018 offseason, team president of basketball operations Neil Olshey told ESPN (video link via Casey Holdahl of Blazers.com).As Sean Meagher of The Oregonian transcribes, Olshey explained that the team has focused on retooling its roster around Damian Lillard and C...
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• Report: Aldridge explored trade back to Blazers amid rift with Spurs
LaMarcus Aldridge got off to a rocky start with the San Antonio Spurs in his first two seasons with the team, which is why it was such a surprise when he signed a three-year extension back in October. Prior to that, his relationship with Gregg Popovich and the team was apparently even worse than it seemed.Ken Berger of Bleacher Report wrote on Thur...
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• Pelicans proving they're on the rise this postseason
The New Orleans Pelicans may not win a single game in their second-round series with the Golden State Warriors. Their chance to steal a game with Steph Curry still out ended with the Warriors winning by 16. Game 2 was a five-point loss with Curry coming off the bench. Game 3 shifts to New Orleans, and the Warriors will start Curry, going back to th...
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• Pelicans Notes: Holiday's emergence; Cousins' rehab; Gentry will return
A primary factor in the Pelicans’ success so far this season – which now includes a sweep of the higher-seeded Trail Blazers in the first round of the Western Conference Playoffs – has been the stellar play of combo guard Jrue Holiday, writes Matt John of Basketball Insiders.Having been somewhat hampered by injuries and personal matters since the P...
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Jrue Holiday showed out in the Pelicans’ first round sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 27.8 points and 6.6 assists per game and locking up superstar Damian Lillard on defense. As a guest on ESPN‘s Get Up! Monday morning, Holiday spoke about his tremendous series and the Pels’ overall success: New Orleans will play ei...
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Jrue Holiday showed out in the Pelicans’ first round sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers, averaging 27.8 points and 6.6 assists per game and locking up superstar Damian Lillard on defense. As a guest on ESPN‘s Get Up! Monday morning, Holiday spoke about his tremendous series and the Pels’ overall success: New Orleans will play ei...
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• Breakup or Make-Up: Safe and extreme fixes for the Blazers
We’re still on our NBA journey. The playoffs have begun, and sixteen teams vie for the Larry O’Brien Trophy. Fifteen teams will join the other 14 non-playoff teams as those who did not win the championship. If a team did not win the title, then that means adjustments must be made in order to best position themselves to win next year. Here at TSFJ, ...
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• Lillard: Blazers didn’t see the Pelicans coming
The New Orleans Pelicans are playing their best basketball since the Chris Paul era. But it comes at the expense of Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers. And on Sunday, the Pelicans would finish off a convincing four-game sweep of Portland. So, what went wrong for the Blazers? Besides everything, of course…Lillard attempts to explain:“It’s...
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• Lillard: Blazers must take fight back to Pelicans
The Blazers haven't done enough to stem the tide of confidence the Pelicans have fed into in taking a 3-0 lead in their first round playoff series, Damian Lillard says....
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• Follow live: Pelicans aim for sweep of Blazers
Anthony Davis and the Pelicans look to sweep away Damian Lillard and the Blazers and advance to the Western Conference semifinals....
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“They’re making me give the ball up.”
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“They’re making me give the ball up.”
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• Old Blazers tweets are fitting amid playoff struggles
New Orleans Pelicans guards Jrue Holiday and Rajon Rondo put the Portland Trail Blazers to the sword in Tuesday night’s Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals, and it sounds like the Blazers should have seen it coming.Holiday led the charge, dropping 33 on the Blazers, while Rondo, not known for his three-point shooting, made two of them, i...
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Two fans shouted anti-gay slurs. The post Damian Lillard: T-Wolves Fans Shouted Anti-Gay Slurs appeared first on SLAMonline....
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Back on Feb. 1, C.J. McCollum dropped 50 points in three quarters, one of the most impressive scoring games of the season. Friday night it was Damian Lillard‘s turn. He dropped 50 on the Sacramento Kings in three quarters (then sat the fourth because the Trail Blazers were so far ahead). Lillard was 16-of-26 shooting on...
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Damian Lillard is fed up. The Portland Trail Blazers star was snubbed from the past two NBA All-Star Games, and... »...