January 6th, 2011 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in Wednesday night’s game between the Portland Trail Blazers and Houston Rockets at Toyota Center pitted a pair of teams very close to each other in terms of the seedings in the Western Conference playoff chase. The Trail Blazers are a team without Brandon Roy while the Rockets, while offensively powerful, still lack size at the [...]
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Trail Blazers Survive Martin’s 45, Outlast Rockets 103-100
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Matthews, Aldridge Combine For 57 As Trail Blazers Deal Jazz Sour Note 100-89
The Portland Trail Blazers will get the opportunity to deal with adversity as they learned that star shooting guard Brandon Roy will be sidelined for a spell with a pair of sore knees. With a lot of teams, they oftentimes would fold up their tent and head home. For at least one game, that wouldn’t [...]
Roy Sub Helps Trail Blazers Edge Grizzlies 100-99
The Portland Trail Blazers, without the services of Brandon Roy, seemed at first glance to be a bit short-handed as the loss of the fifth-year guard/forward from the University of Washington meant losing 18 PPG. Fortunately for Portland, they have a shooting guard by the name of Wesley Matthews who is subbing for Roy. Matthews [...]
Winning Ways Continue For Lakers In Victory Over Blazers
Lakers 121, Blazers 96 If the Blazers were supposed to be the key test in the West, it seems Lakers will have a clear path to the Finals. Undefeated at 7-0, Lakers kept their opponent under 100 for the second time this season. An unlikely triple-double emerged from our towering center, Pau Gasol, who ended [...]
Westbrook Free Throws In OT Help Thunder Edge Trail Blazers 107-106
Prior to the Oklahoma City Thunder-Portland Trail Blazers game on Thursday night, it was announced that Fabricio Oberto abruptly retired, due to a heart condition. Oberto was signed by the Trail Blazers to help shore up the center position, with Greg Oden and Joel Przybilla healing from knee injuries. In addition, Portland lost Elliot Williams [...]
Deng’s Career-High 40 Helps Bulls Trample Trail Blazers 110-98
The Chicago Bulls, under new coach Tom Thibodeau, will certainly be glad when Carlos Boozer returns to their lineup; the word is that he may return as early as late November. So scoring will, in the meantime, have to come from other sources that do not have the name Derrick Rose. Enter Luol Deng. Don’t [...]
J-Rich’s 42 Helps Suns Scorch Trail Blazers 108-89, Take 2-1 Series Lead
I think the best way to describe the Portland Trail Blazers is snakebitten, keeping in mind the multitude of injured personnel on their roster. Yet here they are in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs, fortunate to be there, despite their circumstances. Thursday night would find them up against the Phoenix Suns, with the [...]
Trail Blazers Get Playoff Gift, Edge Lakers 91-88
The Portland Trail Blazers, along with the San Antonio Spurs, are competing for the chance to try and avoid having the top seed in the Western Conference, the Los Angeles Lakers, as their opponent. so I think it is safe to say that the Blazers are playing with a sense of urgency in the remaining [...]
