i've looked forward to the world cup being in the US since the last time it was here, and I can't believe how little I care about it because of FIFA.

netflix is also sending warner brothers an unprotected 2032 pelicans first.

tonight will make the longest stretch of time jrue holiday has missed since his orbital fracture recovery to start the season in 2016. (the pels shut him down electively to tank in 2019). is jrue very badly hurt, or are the blazers being extra cautious as a team that is sorta kinda trying to win.

just read that kawhi blazers abomination take. one of those la writer ‘the clippers gave me a credential again’ trade machine things.

blazers need a point guard badly and cp3 is available.

hospital blazers™ lose to a very beatable eastern conference team led by the likes of—oh yeah—brandon ingram. the west is a tick less forgiving, and you hate to waste a 3mani camara night.

I hate to be a broken record about this, and I know the hospital blazers™ are a thing, but I have zero clue why shaedon is playing in these games. he looks hurt.

hospital blazers™, we ride.

assuming dallas and sacramento pull the ripcord early, a healthier version of the blazers are going to walk their way into the play-in without much incident. doesn’t seem like that will be enough for dundon to keep the fo around unless there’s a yang turnaround coming.

if shaedon is at all hurt portland should sit him tonight; not worth risking injury early in the season.

chauncey and joe were a jump ball under dundon anyway. the spectre of these very public charges and investigations can’t help.

is wednesday’s duel against the midtonio spurs the most meaningful home date in the last X number of years for the blazers? (maybe??)

still ruminating about the absolute lack of aura going on in okc. for a championship team, it’s wild. it’s almost like their entire institution is built on a skimask grab bag operation. almost…

🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ negative shaedon sharpe imaging 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️

hospital blazers™ are dropping like flies (likely no sharpe tonight). f-it, 25 yang minutes (at this point, why not?)

as long as dundon knows to stay away from sabonis' kid, we're good.

honestly impressed at how doomer we got last night as a fanbase over sidy cissoko and caleb love minutes rip city still cares about their blazers.

getting cooked by this gap year suns team at home is a particular kind of hell.

hospital blazers™, lfg

new pod: the hospital blazers have arrived.

in the last week alone, the blazers have dodged kyrie, AD, DFS, FVV, zion, poole, DJM, suggs.

another valiant effort by the hospital blazers™ with zero rostered point guards.

blazers are up 5 and simultaneously down 8, somehow.

sensing a trend developing… the klay thompson game (the nick smith jr. game the nikola jovic game the desmond bane game the derik queen game the jabari smith jr. game)

brandon williams starting over d’angelo russell and klay thompson is wild, man.

vegas lines are weird—why are the hospital blazers giving up points on the road with jrue out?

tired: don’t worry, utah are tanking… wired: uh oh, lauri is making utah too good for the lottery! inspired: eh, they’re terrible.

hospital blazers™ with a scary win on the road against the awful pels. but more importantly, we're starting to see healthy shaedon™ (aka training camp shaedon™) emerge. you love to see it.

man... couldn't disagree more here. all of this <gesticulates wildly> is about securing the Elite Guy, and there are like a handful in the league (cooper flagg is one of them).

imagining scoot henderson saying this every single time someone presses him on his injury timeline

hospital blazers vs. pelicans--expecting another close road loss with all the injuries.

new pod: a freshly competitive blazers team has officially arrived (in the middle).

once sorkin wraps up his social network sequel vanity project I need him to do a draft on the nico/luka saga, moneyball style.

lots of swirl re: nico this AM, but you'd probably still swap the blazers roster and pick situation for dallas' because they have cooper flagg in hand. if their next GM is decent with their irons and short game, all they have to do is assemble serviceable young complementary players around him.

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shaedon’s performance tonight means way more than a win; it might be ‘the’ make or break element of this particular blazers era.

blazers are missing wesley, thybulle and scoot for significant time. sharpe has been nursing soreness until today. (obv. dame is out) are we at the point where we can update the narrative with 'shorthanded blazers'/'hospital blazers'—or are they not shorthanded enough for that designation?

<tune of barenaked ladies> 'it's been six weeks and 3 days since we got word cocked your head to the side and said "I'm injured."'

last night a blazers pg went 6-9 from 3 and torched okc. time is a flat circle.

it was rip city, showtime, fully fantastic, postively portland, slam bombastic

it's giving 'cp3 to the thunder'; cagey vet drags team of youths to a competitive level.

like, what are we doing here

the halo of sga’s whistle is massive, man.

projecting my hopes and dreams onto the notion that when shaedon sharpe gets healthy all of the weird new issues with his game will be fixed.

somehow I’m surprised every time I realize that ousmane dieng is still in the league.

ainge thinks this will get him dybantsa or something.

deandre ayton is gonna get a ton of shots up tonight

are we sure portland-area lakers fans know who jayce lerovia is?

unless we see a transformed caleb love or a suddenly healthy scoot (we're at the 5 week recovery mark), the blake wesley injury seems like it could provide a bit of a speed bump for this fast/defensive blazers offense.

“here you go little guy, just gonna plant you right here so you can grow up to be a nice, big deciduous tree native to the pacific northwest and contribute to your local habitat by offsetting carbon and providing a home to hundreds of indigenous wildlife species like the western grey squirrel.”