PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS Advanced Stats: PACE: #30 90.6 OFFENSE: #10 105.6 DEFENSE: #14 104.2 With a good dose of health, the Portland Trailblazers would have been the “original” Oklahoma City Thunder: a contending team built almost exclusively via the draft. Greg Oden, Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, Marcel Webster and Travis Outlaw were all drafted by the Blazers and if everything went right, they would... Read more

2009/10 Review: The last year of the Kevin Pritchard’s reign in Portland was a successful season if you think about it, but the Trailblazers once again failed to fulfill their potential by not being able to put together a healthy season. Nicolas Batum didn’t start playing until late in December; Greg Oden went down in November with a season ending injury; Joel Przybilla went down in mid November, while... Read more

Development was the key word for the Blazers in the last season, as GM Kevin Pritchard was step by step building a young team via the draft and with Head Coach Nate McMillan, the Blazers were turning into a better team year after year. I remember that the Blazers ended the 2005/2006 season with a dismal 21-61 record and since then, they have finished the next regular seasons with records of 32-50, 41-41 and last year... Read more

Portland's off season last season was lived with euphoria: after all, the team had the rookie of year, Brandon Roy, and the number one choice in the draft: Greg Oden. All of a sudden, all that euphoria disappeared when Oden got injured and missed the whole season and very few expected that the team without him would still reach a .500 record, in a conference where the Warriors with a 48-34 record couldn't reach a... Read more

Western Conference: 10. Portland Trailblazers Portland is one of the main surprises this season, as they are a team which passed from active dogs to favored by large spreads, which made the bettors struggle a lot. Portland had an amazing month in December, but after that the bookies, knowing that the bettors would start betting on the Blazers , started favoring the team by a large number of points, but as... Read more