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The Portland Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. The Trail Blazers are currently celebrating their 50th NBA season. The franchise owner is Jody Allen, who assumed ownership upon the death of her brother Microsoft co-founder and Vulcan Inc. chairman Paul Allen, in 2018.
The name "Trail Blazers" received 172 entries, and was ultimately selected by the judging panel, being revealed on March 13 in the halftime of a SuperSonics game at the Memorial Coliseum. Derived from the trail blazing activity by explorers making paths through forests, Glickman considered it a name that could "reflect both the ruggedness of ...
Portland Trail Blazers "Jail Blazers" (for their players’ off-the-court troubles in the early to mid 2000s), [ 245 ] "Rip City" (the city of Portland) [ 233 ] San Antonio Spurs
The nickname Rip City is usually used in the context of the city's NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers. [12] The term was coined by the team's play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on February 18, 1971, the Blazers' first season. [13]
The Trail Blazers are one of two teams in the major professional North American sports leagues located in the state of Oregon, with the other being the Portland Timbers. The Trail Blazers are also currently the only NBA team based in the binational Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis ...
On February 9, 2023, Thybulle was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in a four-team trade involving the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks. [40] He made his Trail Blazers debut on February 13, recording 14 points, six rebounds, two assists and three blocks in a 127–115 win over the Los Angeles Lakers. [41]
Ayton came on late in his first season in Oregon, averaging 22.7 points and 12.5 rebounds per game after the All-Star break; his long-term prognosis in Portland got considerably cloudier, though ...
Detlef Schrempf (born January 21, 1963) is a German-American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Washington Huskies from 1981 to 1985, and was drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) by the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 1985 NBA draft, with the eighth overall pick.