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@blazers_palace @ToreyJonesYT Those two late game elbow middies are forever etched in my brain.

CJ McCollum cooking Jokic and Murray was one of the most underrated Game 7 performances ever

@cstegmaier 10/10 post

Assuming Ted Turner’s funeral will start at 7:05 pm.

@WorldWideWob If you would have told me before the season: 42 wins, an All-Star, win a road play-in game for the 7-seed, then get gentlemanly swept by a very good Spurs team, I take it. But having sat through the blown leads of games 3 and 4 at Moda, it feels like there should have been more.

Blazers fans therapy session. Let it all out. This is a safe place.

@billoram I tried Bill, both games from the 300-level. I also felt like no one else was waving them.

Separate from the T-shirt discourse, the Blazers rally towels have had no discernible impact on these two games. Nobody waves them. They are not visible in any way. They provide zero unity.

@CHold Not to mention the jersey 0. Doesn’t that make four postseason Achilles in a row by 0s?

Outlaw the negative step

@minakimes Which Richter brother is that?

Okay so a little Jeopardy BTS info - if one of the contestants is super tall (Tim Simons, aka Jonah from Veep) they put you on a little riser at your podium...which is why I'm taller than Ken in that pic. Here is the real height chart!

@sheeltyle @highkin @GMottaTV @trailblazers Starter jackets? Sweet.

@GMottaTV We aren’t doing t-shirts because we are doing something else. Moda will be rocking for Game 3 & 4 @trailblazers

Trail Blazers President Dewayne Hankins says fans won’t receive playoff T-shirts for Games 3 & 4 at the Moda Center when they host Spurs #RipCity #NBAPlayoffs

@GMottaTV I wasn’t expecting anything from them for attending a playoff game, but a tiny pennant for “fan appreciation day” against the Kings was extremely lame.

@trailblazers That squeal from Dame warmed my cold heart.

POSTGAME IN THE POSTSEASON >>>

@ToreyJonesYT I think Splitter has done a great job given the circumstances, but they need someone with more dynamic options than running Deni downhill in crunch time.

Look at the Blazers

Christ Appearing to His Mother, by Juan de Flandes, 1496, 📸 via @MartinFLSheriff

@Brady12Clark I have seats for the season-finale Kings game and would be ecstatic if it’s a win-for-the-8-seed scenario.

Probably not how it plays out, but… Blazers: Home to Pelicans (W) @ Nuggets (L) @ Spurs (L) Home to Clippers (W) Home to Kings (W) Clippers: Home to Spurs (L) @ Kings (W) Home to Mavs (W) Home to OKC (L) @ Portland (L) Home to GSW (W) Portland gets the 8 seed.

Sports have this incredible power to bring people together. It doesn't matter who you are, how you pray, who you vote for or love — you can root for the same team. We need that more than ever today. This is personal for my family — and I'm ready to get to work. We're going to build a team and an organization that makes Rip City proud. nytimes.com/athletic/71436… @trailblazers @TheAthletic @SejalHathi @sujaytyle

@iam_johnw Is he watching the game on a jumbo tron?

Isaiah Evans not even getting a hand up is actually insane here lmao buddy just said “ i dare you to make it from that far “ with a final 4 on the line

The Portland Trail Blazers are .500 with 8 games left to play, and they have the 3rd easiest remaining strength of schedule in the NBA. Their pre-season win total was set to 35.5. Their head coach was arrested by the FBI the morning after Game 1. This is a successful season.

@SleeperBlazers He just happened to have two of his best games of the season in the playoffs. Let’s not act like this was LaDanian Tomlinson. He had TWO 100-yard games in the regular season. The NBA Finals usually doesn’t get non-star MVPs because it’s a best of seven, not a winner-take-all.

What's the NBA equivalent of this? Championship winning team letting their finals MVP walk to sign elsewhere...has this ever happened?

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is. I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others. If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy. If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy. If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it. It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume. Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” And that’s the part that should chill us. Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform? Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress. Now the mask is off. Now we know. And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand. – Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

@LegionHoops @ramonashelburne This is old white guy speak. What you wear does not translate to leadership. How you treat people, empathy, listening, willingness to adapt, confidence … that signals a leader to me. Show me how they treat their spouse and kids. That goes further than their “drip”.

Pat Riley says he wishes NBA coaches still wore suits and ties: “I think when fans look over at the sidelines they want to see someone that looks like a leader.” (via @ramonashelburne)

@DonHarris4 Robinson?

How many NBA players have ALL of the following: Scoring Title Rebound Title Blocked Shots Title Rookie of the Year MVP Defensive Player of the Year Championship Olympic Gold (2) Answer: 1. Any guesses