Aaron Ontiveros-Getty Images With the past decade coming to a close, what better way to ring in the new decade by reflecting on the past. Off The Glass is taking a look at each NBA team and selecting their All-Decade squad, which is defined by one guard, one forward, one center, a role player (someone not selected as an All-Star, or to an All-NBA team), and one wildcard. Today we are highlighting the Portland Trail Blazers. Guard: Damian Lillard. There was no other person you

Blazer's Edge Prior to the start of the 2019-2020 NBA season, Portland Trail Blazers General Manager Neil Olshey touted this roster as the “deepest, most versatile” he had ever put together. Yet after losing starting power forward Zach Collins, arguably only the 4th best player on the team, to a possible season-ending labrum injury after only three games, the Trail Blazers find themselves in a tailspin sitting with a 4-8 record and 13th in the Western Conference. The Blazers

Rip City Project The Portland Trail Blazers entered the 2019-2020 season with championship aspirations. Fresh off a surprising Western Conference Finals birth, the team focused their offseason moves on free agents and trades that took the scoring burden off its two stars; Damian Lillard and CJ McCullom. The Blazers began training camp with an entirely different starting lineup — outside of the star guards — and a bench unit comprised of mostly of new acquisitions. But one th

USA Today The Portland Trail Blazers opened up their 50th NBA season carrying an 18-game home opener win streak, good for best in the NBA. Sadly, that league leading streak would come to an end in a hard fought battle against their divisional rival and league darlings, the Denver Nuggets. Things got off to a great start for Portland, with Nikola Jokic getting three quick whistles and being forced to ride the pine early. During that stretch, the Blazers were able to hang with

SB Nation Ah, yes, I remember my first time. If you just read that opening sentence, it means that my editors are doing one of two things. Option A: I have worn them down so much that they just decided to let me run rampant with these blogs. Option B: Someone isn't doing their job. Regardless, let's jump head first into the discussion. Which players can reach their first All-Star game this year? The best way to approach this is to consider who may not be participating in the

The 2019-2020 NBA season should be one of the most exciting seasons in recent memory; there is no clear favorite to win it all. There are also lots of teams who have the necessary resources to pull off a blockbuster trade that could change the landscape of the league. Here are the teams best positioned to pull it off: Honorable Mentions NBA.com Atlanta Atlanta has the necessary firepower to make a big-time trade that would shake up the East. They could use Allen Crabbe’s l

Bleacher Report The 2019-2020 NBA season starts October 22nd and to get you ready for tip-off, Off the Glass is previewing all 30 teams. Today we look at the Portland Trail Blazers. 2018-2019 Record: 53-29, 2nd in the Northwest Division. Lost 0-4 to the Golden State Warriors in the Western Conference Finals. Season Recap: The Trail Blazers started the season out hot, going 10-3 in their first 13 games with one of those loses coming from a last second block in overtime. Playin

Complex Pick 30: Los Angeles Lakers - Frank Ntilikina (Original pick: Josh Hart) The last (first round) pick of the Phil Jackson era in New York has not been great. Defensively is where his game shines, but his career 5.9 PPG on 35% shooting is horrendous. To restart his NBA career, why not put him in L.A. to get some bench minutes while backing up Fox. Pick 29: San Antonio Spurs - Markelle Fultz (Original pick: Derrick White) Let’s have fun. Fultz has not lived up to the hyp

USA Today In this upcoming season, there is much speculation about who next year’s MVP will be. LeBron James, Anthony Davis, James Harden, Nikola Jokic and Giannis Antetokounmpo are all expected to make a run at the coveted award, along with many other of the NBA’s usual suspects. Every now and then, a player comes out of nowhere to win the award, surprising fans and basketball analysts alike. With the upcoming season having more parity than the NBA has had in years, now is t

USA Today With the NBA postseason now behind us it seems like the right time to reflect on the spectacle of the 2018-19 playoffs, before the memories of the earlier rounds and the greatness of the Finals fade away into free agency and the start of next season. The Toronto Raptors are the champions of the world. The Golden State Warriors quest to win four out of five was ended by a strong Toronto team, a myriad of injuries, and inconsistencies on the defensive end. At the end

Bleacher Report Overview: Enes Kanter is a truly challenging player to gauge the value of. What he does on the basketball court is a confusing mishmash of undoubted offensive skill, offensive rebounding and high motor play, juxtaposed with a proven inability to defend or put up the “correct statistics” for what signifies value in the modern NBA. Kanter is just finishing up his ninth regular season and his fourth postseason. The 2018-19 season was a strange one for the big man

Chat Sports The center position is nothing like it used to be. Three pointers, fadeaway jumpers, driving from the top of the key; the game isn’t about seven footers backing down their opponents and dominating the paint anymore. Nikola Jokic, Joel Embid and Karl Anthony Towns are all redeeming the five spot with their utilization of traditional guard skills. While it may seem like this trend started in the last few years, it did not. There was an originator, an OG big man that

Courtesy of NBC Sports. This is how the NBA Playoffs are supposed to work, right? The two best teams from each conference are meant to meet in their conference finals in order to determine who is superior, and by extension, who is allowed an opportunity to seize eternal glory. For the Golden State Warriors, it has been a yet another deep post-season run, increasingly vindicating their dynastic status as they attempt to string together a three-peat of NBA Championships. While

During the NBA postseason, the game slows down, execution is at a premium, and the stars shine their brightest. From Kevin Durant’s unstoppable scoring, Kawhi Leonard’s two-way excellence, and Damian Lillard waving goodbye to the Thunder, the 2019 playoffs have been dominated by heroic, big-name performances. Behind the scenes, however, it is the role players that give their teams a chance to succeed. One must look past the high-profile players to see how games are truly on

NBA.com As the Western Conference Semi-Final between the Nuggets and the Trailblazers returns to Denver, the series has been reduced to a best-of-three. The teams have been as equal as possible, with Denver leading 464-462 after four games and four OTs. What small adjustments will lead to the razor thin margin sure to differentiate these rivals? 1. The Men in the Middle The longer this series goes, the more the Blazers miss Jusuf Nurkic. Enes Kanter, as talented a post-scorer

NBA.com Now that the games have real meaning, we take a look at who’s playing the biggest part in their team's success. These awards will disregard regular season stats and focus on players who might not have a chance to win a full season award. Best Rookie: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Honorable Mentions: Rodions Kurucs, Landry Shamet NBA.com The Clippers (somehow) took two games from the Warriors in the first round, thanks in part to rookie Shai Gilgeous-Alexander. There wasn’t

Despite everything, Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers are moving on. Dame’s endured All-Star snubs, back-to-back first round series sweeps, ‘Jenny tweet’ memes, Westbrook’s ‘too small to defend me’ & his rock-the-baby taunts, and more, Still, Lillard is advancing to the next round following a pulsating 118-115 victory over Oklahoma Thunder Tuesday night. Portland’s 28-year old Portland superstar humiliated one of the game’s biggest personalities to earn what is a

NBA.com Game 3 is in the books and the Portland Trail Blazers now lead the Oklahoma City Thunder 2-1. As we wait for Game 4, here are five thoughts on the series. 1. Getting out of the first round is important for both teams Interestingly enough, both teams came into this series having been knocked out in the first round of the Playoffs for the last two years. OKC lost to the Houston Rockets in five games in 2017 and then to the Utah Jazz in six in 2018. The Blazers have had

NBA.com Season Recap It was another strong season in the Pacific Northwest. For the sixth consecutive year, the Trail Blazers will be playing postseason basketball, locking themselves into the third seed for the second year in a row and boosting their win total to 53 -- their highest since this playoff streak started in 2013-4. Somehow they enter the second season on both a high and a low note, however. Since the calendar turned to March, Portland has gone 15-6 to close out t

Getty Images The NBA Playoffs begin today, and with that come some crazy outcomes. For some people we can see the outcomes coming from a mile away, but in some cases it shocks the NBA landscape . For the first time in a long time, both the Western Conference and Eastern Conference are pretty balanced in terms of great matchups each night. With that being said, who will be ‘upset’ in the first round? (6) Oklahoma City defeats the (3) Portland Trail Blazers in five games: Why o