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The 2025-26 NBA season saw the Portland Trail Blazers emerge from the basement of the Western Conference and make the Playoffs for the first time since 2021. The excellent year did showcase a few different weaknesses of the roster, however, the biggest one being shooting. So it was a match made in heaven when the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers will have plenty of decisions to make in the Summer of 2026 regarding their roster. One of them will be the fate of center Robert Williams III, an oft-injured veteran who came up huge late in the year, particularly during Portland’s NBA Playoffs series with the San Antonio Spurs. Williams is […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are in the news almost every day now for changes to their coaching outlook. Today two pieces of news were released regarding the Blazers bench. First, per Mike Scotto of HoopsHype, Portland is losing Assistant Coach Patrick St. Andrews, a nine-year veteran assistant who has spent time with Atlanta, Memphis, and […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are one of a handful of NBA franchises currently searching for their next head coach to guide the team through their next era. Given the plethora of vacancies available—the Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Dallas Mavericks, and Orlando Magic—aspiring coaches have a few options. Candidates will no doubt consider both the pros and […]
As of Friday, May 22nd, 2026 the Portland Trail Blazers still remain without a confirmed Head Coach. After a year of Tiago Splitter filling in as an interim appointment, the Blazers are in a search process for their next leader. Yesterday news heated up as several candidates were named as “finalists”. These included veteran coach […]
Over the last few weeks we’ve been recapping the 2025-26 season for each member of the Portland Trail Blazers roster. Some Blazers had excellent years, others struggled. Now we arrive at the player who makes Portland fans scratch their heads and say, “What, exactly, is going on here?” That would be rookie center Yang Hansen, […]
As we spend time between the end of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 2025-26 season and the start of the 2026 NBA Draft, we’re taking a look back at the performance of Portland’s players this year. Today we’re going to look at third-year forward Kris Murray. The Blazers hoped for a diamond in the rough when […]
Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin said many things during an extensive exit interview with media back on April 30. Slipped into that wide-ranging 23-minute interview was a small aside about the upcoming NBA Draft. “[Blazers owner Tom Dundon is] going to put money into this team whenever it’s necessary,” Cronin said. “We’ve had […]
Yesterday the Portland Trail Blazers laid off 70 members of the organization, an efficiency and cost-cutting measure occasioned by the transfer of ownership from the Paul Allen Estate to Tom Dundon’s ownership group in March. Predictably, the news caused plenty of angst. The event itself was by the numbers: management calls a meeting, HR presides, […]
Amid the gloom and doom reports surrounding the Portland Trail Blazers over the last 48 hours comes a nice glimmer of light. Former Blazer’s Edge staffer Ben Golliver is joining ESPN as Senior NBA Writer. Golliver was caught up in The Washington Post purge a couple months ago. It’s good to see a site alum […]
The Portland Trail Blazers call one of the best corners of the United States home. The Pacific Northwest is full of beautiful scenery, generally-friendly people, and some of the best cuisine in the country. That hasn’t stopped Portland from earning one of the less distinguished designations on The Athletic’s NBA Player Poll [subscription required]. The […]
News is filtering out today of the Portland Trail Blazers laying off several staff members. Terminations appear to be taking effect immediately. They come on the business side of the organization, not the basketball side. The most public-facing name reported so far is Digital Reporter Casey Holdahl. He tweets: I have indeed been let go […]
Interim Head Coach Tiago Splitter remains in charge of the Portland Trail Blazers locker room as of May, 2026, at least in name. The Blazers have neither moved on from Splitter nor formally announced prospective candidates to replace him. Portland’s coaching situation remains foggy as of this juncture, with Magic 8-Balls providing as much information […]
As we move through our player recaps for the Portland Trail Blazers’ 2025-26 NBA season, next up is reserve wing Matisse Thybulle. When Thybulle hit restricted free agency three seasons ago, the Dallas Mavericks offered him a Mid-Level Exception contract to the tune of 3 years and $33.5 million. He signed the offer sheet, which […]
The 2026 NBA Draft will be held on June 23rd and 24th at Barclays Center in New York City. The Portland Trail Blazers don’t currently have a pick in this year’s draft, but that won’t dull the buzz around it any. This is supposed to be one of the deepest, most top-heavy drafts in recent […]
In the search for the coaching candidate most willing to work for exposure, the Blazers are still scouring the market for eager suitors to take the reins of their roster. Shockingly, not many clear options are stepping up. As a result of their reluctance to pay livable wages, the Blazers are not looking at marquee […]
The 2025-26 NBA season provided a lot of experience for a Portland Trail Blazers team starting to make their push into the NBA Playoffs. Throughout the season, Portland was able to weather injuries and overcome slumps from deep to make its first postseason appearance since the 2020-21 NBA season. Once there, one of the biggest […]
With franchise legend Damian Lillard’s return to the floor no longer a far-off scenario, the Portland Trail Blazers now have a bevy of guards who ideally would play big roles next season. The Blazers roster the talented but up-and-down duo of Scoot Henderson and Shaedon Sharpe, both still just 22. They’ve also got the talented […]
The roulette wheel keeps spinning on the Portland Trail Blazers’ search for a potential new head coach. Seemingly every week now a crop of new names arises, most of them from the relatively-inexpensive ranks of NBA assistant coaches. This week is no exception, as Jake Fischer is reporting in his latest substack [subscription required] that […]
Portland Trail Blazers owner Tom Dundon has addressed the criticism swirling around the NBA world about him and the franchise’s controversial cost-cutting measures since he took over this spring. In his first public comments since his introductory press conference in April, Dundon participated in an extensive interview this week on The Ringer’s “Game Over” podcast […]
The Portland Trail Blazers are going to be in the middle of multiple trade rumors during the Summer of 2026. A team with valuable assets, no current draft picks, and a thirst for improvement is going to pique the interest of rival GM’s and media members alike. Whether or not the Blazers end up making […]
Terry Stotts last coached the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2020-21 season. After being dismissed from the position, he took a couple years off from the NBA before returning as an assistant coach with Steve Kerr and the Golden State Warriors. As recent reports have indicated, he’ll move on from that post this summer. What’s […]
Yang Hansen might end up being this incarnation of the Portland Trail Blazers’ most divisive player. The talent is raw, the size is enticing but the reality is a genuine mystery. The young center also has the spectre of Cedric Coward hanging over his head. General Manager Joe Cronin opted to trade the more mature […]
Another year of the Shaedon Sharpe Experience™ has come and gone, and I regret to inform you all that he has not yet become Michael Jordan with a jumpshot. Following what seemed to be – despite recurring calf injuries – a regular season chalked with offensive growth, the Portland Trail Blazers guard was ostensibly benched […]
Portland Trail Blazers trade talk is going to hit a fevered pitch this summer. The Blazers are in prime position to make moves. They’re a good team on the fringes of the NBA Playoffs scene, but not great. They have a couple veteran contracts for salary-matching purposes, young players to add seasoning to a deal, […]