Searching For Akili Smith

It has been a rightly busy off-season in Portland. The Trail Blazers now have their General Manager, Head Coach, and maybe even their pick and roll man. Trail Blazers fans even enjoyed almost one month with a full front office, until President Larry Miller set sails for calmer seas.   Neil Oshley, coming from the [...]

Basically I want to go into the Blazer’s locker room and tell them this: Look, you’re like this bear with big claws, big fangs. Big fucking teeth. And the playoffs, they’re like this little bunny, cowering in the corner. And you’re staring at these claws and you’re thinking to yourself “How am I supposed to [...]

The 2011-12 season for the Portland Trail Blazers looks to be a very interesting one for everyone involved. Coming off a season in which they suffered countless injuries and still managed to make the playoffs with a record of 48-34 only to lose to the eventual NBA Champion Dallas Mavericks, the 2011-12 Blazers are going [...]