Premium Portland experience: Asking the bartender in an empty bar to turn down The Shins and turn up the sound on the TV playing sports and they politely decline.

Bam Adebayo is definitive proof that the best basketball players in the world do and always have come from Eastern North Carolina. Kick rocks Southern California, Chicagoland and the Balkans.

If you are the young person wearing the red Trail Blazers Gary Payton II in the third row at Moda tonight … come on Locked On Blazers to unpack your trauma

I wrote about ghost hunting and Damian Lillard. I don't write anymore (because I only get paid to yap) so, I guess, read this and I might do it again(?) medium.com/@michaelgric...

lol go heels

Caleb Love has been incredible and the Moda Center is making sure fans appreciate it with ummm whatever this is.

Blazers win?

How could the Blazers do *this* to *me*, a podcaster in need of 30 minutes of content

Glad y’all are getting a few games of the raw and uncut Caleb Love experience. It is extremely dangerous in every direction.

Blazers cursed by these unforgivable overhead camera angles? Could be!

I’m rebranding as a guy who posts music videos from 20 years ago. youtu.be/1LLAN29W-4w?...

I got a haircut and recorded an episode of Locked On Blazers this morning. If you're interested in the latter, it is in your audio feeds and on YouTube right now.

🚨 SCOOP 🚨: Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon has agreed to buy the Portland Trail Blazers from Paul Allen's estate @sportico.bsky.social values the franchise at $3.6 billion Read more: www.sportico.com/business/tea...

Nobody writes like Katie. Nobody writes about Summer League like Katie. Students are so lucky to learn how to approach the craft from someone so uniquely talented. "Don’t bury it, don’t write from down here ... We have enough of that for lifetimes. Go up."

Early summer scouting notes

After some consideration: Hansen Yang appears to be the Hasheem Thabeet of Marc Gasols

lol the partially recorded podcast graveyard claims another file

(I never do this and I don’t have any followers so someone with reach please RT) Send me your Blazers draft dreams. Either a player they pick at 11, or something else that is mildly plausible for draft night. I will use the ones I like on the podcast* *unless I do not follow through on this idea.

Yes, Cers as it were

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Perhaps I could widen my interests and become a more well rounded adult. But... Ball Is Life.

“I never had anyone really that went through the experience that I was going through," Donovan Clingan said. When Justin Minaya's mom died last summer, the Blazers rookie became that person for his new teammate. New column: www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2025...

Duke fraudulent. Cooper Flagg is Lee Nailon with a PR firm. Go Heels.

Oh no the Noble Blazers of Postseason Pursuit are perhaps flirting with something unsavory. Lol.

Deserve got nothin to do with it

The last two sporting events I’ve tried to show my two year old have been an absolutely excruciating Carolina loss and the Thorns giving up a goal in 4 minutes. This is actually good parenting. Most teams lose, kid. We’re going to the Blazers game tomorrow. Sorry in advance.

Making content on the internet everyday can be exhausting at times. There’s a lot of dummies with access to a bullhorn to tell you something you put effort into sucks and is bad. But sometimes it can be deeply rewarding to hear from folks who appreciate your work

As our notions of a constitutional democracy are decaying at warp speed around us, there's been a lot of good Trail Blazers content on the internet this week!

12 days between losses felt like several months. Mostly because each day is *a lot* right now but also the Blazers did a lot of convincing winning. They will likely win some games again and also lose some. Please like and subscribe.

For those curious, the NBA did not reach out to Shaedon Sharpe about participating in the dunk contest. He told me he didn’t know if he would’ve done it if offered but they never contacted him or his agency as far he knows.

A podcast? Focusing on the Portland Trail Blazers? Ostensibly centered around this game? Absolutely. No problem. None at all.

A Carolina basketball thought: Not having a single good player taller than 6-6 in the era of college hoops free agency should be a fireable offense. Also, I love this stupid tiny team. Oops all guards: Piedmont Edition.

I’m proud of the work I’ve done in 2024 but really closed the year strong by introducing a remix to Whodini’s classic “Friends” for when my 2 year old is getting dressed. “Pants! How many of us have them (have them)? Pants! Ones we can depend on! Pants.”

The thing about the AI revolution is that it's taken negative customer service interactions into new and interesting places.

so many layers to this blazers onion, donkey like and subscribe.

The Mavericks are shooting 73% on 2s.

I got laid off from a pretty sweet full time job in sports in 2018. I will never work in sports full time ever again. (I mean, I would. Hit me up.) I have a family it’s simply not viable for us to keep the lights on and go to the doctor.

@kpelton.bsky.social I can't find it because The Internet In 2024... but I know you once answered a Pelton Mailbag Q about lineup data stabilizing at ~X number of possessions. You got that link (or even just the number roughly) handy?

Today on @channel6.bsky.social we have an important piece on Bill Belichick, time, aging, legacy, and loss channel-6.ghost.io/bitch-you-ha...

The Jazz could’ve gone scoreless over the final 13:25 and still won by two.

It’s a tough league. Sometimes you just run up against Svi Mykhailiuk and Johnny Juzang and that’s that.

The Blazers going 0-29 here is ... probably fair and also not ideal for the ol' pinwheels

Hello, yes, it's me, Mike. This might not work BUT Send me some Blazers-y questions for a mailbag episode of the pod. Only good ones. If you have a bad ones just hold on to them for now. I will do a "Bad Questions" show at a later date.

I hope Scoot Henderson is okay. I do think “player gets in car accident and team doesn’t disclose it for a couple days” deserves a higher level of scrutiny. The media world is different and worse but this is an odd precedent in terms of transparency and the graph is only pointing in one direction.

I think I have a small enough footprint here to unleash my boldest takes without any feedback: Big Boi is the most underrated rapper of my lifetime and folks that only appreciate Andre are squares with defective ears and brains.

If you are migrating here from the other place, this is indeed me, Mike, a podcaster you know and tolerate.