NAW had the biggest YoY leap and has major recency bias, avdija & duren lept into all-star status and duren is about to get PAID this offseason. 7 of the last 10 players to win MIP made the all-star that year (however daniels did 'not', last year--in addition to siakam and CJ). recency = NAW wins

....avdija's STILL there, waiting for just the right moment to throw a lob

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I'm the michael jordan of sensing where the obligatory 'end of 1.5h' blazers nba podcast segment is.

dundon told quick that a private-public partnership means that the public underwrites a building remodel and the team doesn't leave. (honestly, I don't care that much about shirts, or normal org changes, but it's totally fair for portlanders to expect owners to invest over a dollar in the area)

what if, for just 28 cents a day, you could buy a portland fan a playoff t-shirt? or a blazers employee late checkout? through the el cheapo fan fund, now you can. because just the change in your pocket could change a fan’s life.

legend has it that avdija is still frozen in time—mid euro step—to this day.

rob williams iii is a bad, bad man. #retainrob

I prefer the harvey

lotta ‘never sold m’scoot stock!’ people coming out of the woodwork who shared PoopScootOnTrike.jpeg on main. come on now!

shaedon sharpe game? shaedon sharpe game.

I've heard some call it sensitive small town behavior. idk... if this nonsense happened in new york the response would be the same and they'd call it the mean streets! 'big media market' pressure! potato potahto. this isn't the nhl, tommy boy.

the blazers shot 4-23 in above the break 3s--a woeful 17.3% clip. fix that and keep the turnovers down and you got a stew goin'.

first play of the game, no foul. wemby you ain't slick.

that bruce ely ‘playoff photos over the years’ instagram post is teeming with emotional subtext.

a local blazers reporter shot his shot and got aggregated. the ‘tom dundon jokes’ news cycle is upon us.

san antonio is tiny too—if you were a casual you probably don’t know the name of a single non-wemby player after watching that broadcast. (don’t get me wrong wemby is a hilarious cheat code fun player, but the broadcast playbook would be the same if wemby was on the kings.) #wembycam

jrue drives, chops his steps, scores. <replay of wemby’s reaction from the bench> <reggie miller shares a loose framework of a thought about wemby> incredible camara steal, turnover, scoot scores. <spurs coach losing his GD mind from sideline> <wemby nonchalant reaction> <reggie tries French again>

not nearly enough 2-way towels being waved after made buckets on the bench. you think I’m joking but 2-way towel wavers are the custodians of vibes. it’s a HUGE deal.

oddly encouraged by the game tonight—portland was <shoot league average from 3> away from being in that game - only 10 turnovers (they were 16-4 in the regular season when they protected the ball) - spurs didn’t really have an answer for deni. - offense generated open looks that they bricked.

I know it goes without saying, but it is insane the difference between the spurs with wemby on the court, and the spurs with wemby off.

wemby has protected status with the league, tiago has to know that by now…

The Stephon Castle Whistle™.

blazers have to feel good that they are within 10 after that terrible shooting half. they’ve also only committed 3 turnovers. they’re going to need another couple of tertiary scorers to make something, though; outside of deni the team shot 12-34 from the field.

<every generic nba analyst rn> ‘I’ve been following the blazers all season. deni av-deeja, camera, clingan… they’re going to make life hard for the spurs. It’s one of my favorite series’ of the first round, and I think it will be very competitive. spurs in 4.’

the blazers are 16-0 when they shoot an EFG of .520 and only commit 14 or less turnovers. it may not be ‘the’ recipe in the series but it’ll keep them in games.

the current broke boy news cycle is a useful tool just as public partners are asking the ownership group to throw <literally anything> down on the arena or moda district, for their part. none of this is unintentional.

seeing how portland is handling its imminent coaching vacancy makes one think we’ve seen the last of using the 15th roster spot.

judging by steinscher’s rumored candidates, feels like dundon wants to team up with a coach who has a similar nba outsider vibe as he.

SSS theater (12 games to start the season), but fully fit jrue/sharpe/JG/deni averaged 120.6 points per game, far from the anemic season stats you’ll hear a lot about this weekend.

get ready for rally towels. it’s a ‘canes thing.

said coach could then sell ad space on their quarter zip to supplement the position.

dundon is apparently asking potential new coaches to take the gig as an unpaid ‘for exposure’ move.

You guys hate it now but you're gonna miss the White Lotus music when we're playing royalty free sounds in a playoff game down 2 with 10 seconds to go #RipCityRunsCheap

will never forget when the shonz shouted out spontaneously, ‘LEAN SIX CITY!’

make ‘em uncomfort—ah nm.

when the spurs visit the blazers for game 3 at the rose garden, it will have been 2,531 days—nearly 7 years—since a fully-loaded playoff home game at the arena (game 4 vs the warriors in the WCF).

from a scouting perspective, there really isn’t a sample size to look at for these hospital blazers™. scoot/shaedon/jrue/tisse/JG have been a revolving door of injuries all season, one of the most injured teams in the league by games missed. and until a few days ago, they’ve never had 14 guys.

the emerging private equity bloc of owners are a hell of a drug.

what if the alien destroyer was a sheepish cedar rapids kid this whole time?

you know what, light the moda apartment.

new owner syndrome and a full boat of future draft capital. may god have mercy on us all.

leave it to lamelo to single-handedly end the hornets good vibes spring.

on may 8, 2021, jerami grant played in his last post-march basketball game: - udonis haslem was still in the nba - olivia rodrigo’s sour had just debuted - nasa was still testing its artemis I SLS rockets

yes team has lacked ball handling point all season with scoot out and Jrue who has been wayyy more offball since he left Milwaukee.

the minutes played makes one think of olshey after they bombed out of the playoffs vs the nuggets, but I love the energy

I get some major, adorable ‘little big league’ vibes from sheel tyle.

blazers on track for the playoffs despite some of the worst injury luck I can remember. it’s a great day to be a blazer fan.

this is a glengarry lede rightchear

All this NBA tanking coverage is trying to convince a fan that doesn’t even exist. No casual fan is turning on their TV in March and saying “I wanna see how a bottom 7 team in the league is doing.” The only people complaining about this are people who are paid to do this. And if you’re mad about it