Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.
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42 Facts About Portland Trail Blazers
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The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division.
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The Trail Blazers are the only NBA team based in the Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001 and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
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That summer, the Portland Trail Blazers made a controversial trade, sending Lever, Cooper, and Natt to the Denver Nuggets for high-scoring forward Kiki Vandeweghe.
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However, the Portland Trail Blazers continued to struggle in the post-season, and in 1986, Ramsay was fired and replaced with Mike Schuler.
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Portland Trail Blazers was replaced on an interim basis with assistant coach Rick Adelman, and Vandeweghe was traded to the New York Knicks.
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In July 1994, the Trail Blazers announced the hiring of a new team president, former Seattle SuperSonics general manager Bob Whitsitt.
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In that series, the Trail Blazers dropped three out of the first four games before winning the next two, forcing a pivotal Game 7.
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The Portland Trail Blazers had a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter, but lost the game and the series to the Lakers, who went on to win the first of three consecutive titles.
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Trail Blazers made a series of personnel moves in the 2000 and 2001 off-seasons that failed to produce the desired results.
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Portland Trail Blazers agreed to donate $10,000 to the Oregon Humane Society.
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The Portland Trail Blazers won the 2007 NBA draft lottery and selected Ohio State center Greg Oden with the No 1 pick in the draft.
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Portland Trail Blazers added some international flavor to the team with the arrival of Spanish swingman Rudy Fernandez, a member of the Spain national basketball team.
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The Portland Trail Blazers attempted to sign free agent small forward Hedo Turkoglu, who led the Orlando Magic to the 2009 NBA Finals, but after a verbal agreement he decided to sign with the Toronto Raptors.
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The Portland Trail Blazers then attempted to sign restricted free agent Paul Millsap; however, their offer was matched by the Utah Jazz.
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The Portland Trail Blazers acquired rookies Armon Johnson, Luke Babbitt, and Elliot Williams from the 2010 NBA draft and off-season trades.
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The Trail Blazers sent forward Dante Cunningham, center Joel Przybilla and center Sean Marks to the Charlotte Bobcats in return for former All-Star and All-Defensive forward Gerald Wallace.
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The emergence of Aldridge and the play of Matthews kept the Portland Trail Blazers competitive, sealing another playoff berth by winning 48 games.
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However, like in their last two postseasons, the Portland Trail Blazers were eliminated in six games of the first round, this time against the eventual champions, the Dallas Mavericks.
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On June 23,2011, in the NBA draft, the Trail Blazers drafted guards Nolan Smith from Duke University with the 21st selection and Jon Diebler from Ohio State University with the 51st selection.
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Portland Trail Blazers received Houston's second-round draft pick in the 2012 NBA draft.
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Portland Trail Blazers then traded forward Gerald Wallace to the New Jersey Nets for center Mehmet Okur, forward Shawne Williams, and New Jersey's first-round, top-3-protected pick in the 2012 NBA draft.
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At the 2012 NBA draft lottery on May 30, the Portland Trail Blazers secured the number 6 pick of the draft via the Brooklyn Nets from the Gerald Wallace trade, and ended up with the number 11 pick due to their own record.
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On June 28,2012, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Weber State guard Damian Lillard and University of Illinois center Meyers Leonard with the 6th and 11th picks overall, respectively.
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The Portland Trail Blazers signed their 30th pick from the 2006 draft, Joel Freeland, and their 22nd pick from the 2009 draft, Victor Claver, as well as re-signing Hickson and Nicolas Batum.
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The Portland Trail Blazers selected guard CJ McCollum out of Lehigh University with their 10th pick, and selected center Jeff Withey from Kansas, power forward Grant Jerrett from Arizona, and Montenegrin big man Marko Todorovic.
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Portland Trail Blazers finished the 2014 season with 21 more wins than the previous season, which amounted for the largest single-season improvement in franchise history.
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On December 14,2013, the Portland Trail Blazers made a franchise-record 21 three-pointers against the Philadelphia 76ers.
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Three Portland Trail Blazers went to New Orleans for the All Star Weekend: Matthews for the Foot Locker Three-Point Contest, Lillard as a reserve to the All-Star Game, and Aldridge as a starter to the All-Star game.
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Portland Trail Blazers's shot capped off a 50-point performance from Lillard.
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The Trail Blazers won the series in seven games and advanced to the Western Conference Finals for the first time since 2000.
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On February 8,2022, in the midst of a losing season filled with injuries, the Portland Trail Blazers elected to trade CJ McCollum to the New Orleans Pelicans.
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On June 22,2022, the Portland Trail Blazers received Detroit Pistons forward Jerami Grant in exchange for 2023 and 2025 draft picks.
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On June 23,2022, in the 2022 NBA Draft, the Portland Trail Blazers selected guard Shaedon Sharpe out of the University of Kentucky and forward Jabari Walker from the University of Colorado with the 7th and 57th picks respectively.
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Trail Blazers hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.
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Trail Blazers have had the No 1 pick in the NBA draft four times in their history; each time selecting a center.
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Several Portland Trail Blazers' picks have been criticized by NBA commentators as particularly unwise:.
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Team from 1988 until 2018 was owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen; ownership of the Trail Blazers is currently via a series of holding companies which Allen owned.
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The Trail Blazers have long been one of the NBA's top draws, with the exception of two periods in the team's history.
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On November 2,2017, NBC Sports Northwest launched a paid over-the-top service, Portland Trail Blazers Plus, offering access to 15 games through the remainder of the season.
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The original radio announcer for the team was Bill Schonely, who served as the team's radio play-by-play announcer from 1970 until 1992 and from 1994 until his retirement in 1998—calling 2,522 Blazers games—and remains with the team as a community ambassador.
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