Billups sees Little, Hart, Sharpe Playing Small Forward for Blazers

The Portland Trail Blazers have little time to get over their 111-109 loss Tuesday night at the Oklahoma City Thunder. Next up is the Houston Rockets, another young team on the rise in the Western Conference. The Rockets have already reached the 20-win mark after averaging just 19.7 wins over the past three seasons. Houston has drafted well, adding…

Shaedon Sharpe is in the midst of a stretch where he's taking a significant amount of attempts from long range. Read more to find out why Rob Paul is targeting the sophomore's 3-point total tonight in our Lakers vs. Trail Blazers betting picks. In a Friday night game out west, the LA Lakers need a victory against the lowly Portland Trail Blazers to…

The Portland Trail Blazer are off to an 0-3 start in the 2023-24 season, although the team was expected to struggle was expected after it traded away Damian Lillard this offseason. The Toronto Raptors, on the other hand, don't have that excuse. Toronto is just 1-2 to start the season, losing to the Chicago Bulls and Philadelphia 76ers in a…

Justin Minaya has had a front row seat to one of the biggest NBA stories of this preseason. The Harrington, N.J. native is in training camp with the Portland Trail Blazers, who last month engineered a blockbuster trade of superstar Damian Lillard to the Milwaukee Bucks. With Lillard gone, Portland has turned its team over to rookie guard Scoot…

The Portland Trail Blazers still probably don't rate as a playoff team in 2023-24, but the franchise is moving forward from the Damian Lillard trade with a promising, athletic, youthful roster and a healthy heaping of draft capital to play with. On Sunday, the Blazers traded All-Star guard Jrue Holiday to the Boston Celtics for center Robert…

The Portland Trail Blazers have waived second-year guard Jeenathan Williams, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic and Stadium. Williams, 24, went undrafted out of the University at Buffalo last year and signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Utah Jazz on Oct. 11, 2022. However, the New York native was waived a day later. The 6-foot-5 guard…

Suffice to say, there is no suspense regarding who the San Antonio Spurs will select after winning the first overall pick at the 2023 NBA Draft Lottery, but after that, there is significant debate about the next three to five prospects. So with the Trail Blazers jumping up to secure the third overall pick (thanks B.Roy!), they'll have their pick of…

The Portland Trail Blazers enter the Summer of 2023 with a healthy measure of unrest and uncertainty. Their roster is bifurcated between a couple key veterans and a raft of youngsters. They're butting up against the luxury tax on the heels of a 33-win season. They need to make changes, but the path forward remains murky. In that atmosphere, we…

The 2023 NBA Trade Deadline is a day away and NBA Trade Rumors are flying thick and fast. The Portland Trail Blazers stand in the midst of the storm, a low- to mid-playoffs team trying to get into secure position in a crowded Western Conference. Whether it's about the Trail Blazers or 29 other NBA teams, trade news will be on the way soon. Before…

The Portland Trail Blazers are just two games back from the no. 6 seed in the West-and a guaranteed playoff spot-and just two games away from the sixth-worst record, and higher lottery odds. In other words, they're once again stuck in the middle. Same as it's always been. But rather than blow their core up and gamble in the draft lottery, a recent…

The Toronto Raptors hope to snap their three-game losing streak by besting the Portland Trail Blazers at home on Sunday. The pregame narrative: Scottie Barnes has found himself in a tough matchup with Jerami Grant, Fred VanVleet's sheer number of shot attempts should lead to an over and Josh Hart has been putting up points lately. Here are our…

The Portland Trail Blazers (18-16) are coming into tonight's game off the back of a 124-113 win over the Charlotte Hornets. Their opponents tonight, the Golden State Warriors (18-18), are currently riding high on a three-game winning streak. The Trail Blazers broke a three-game losing skid with their Hornets victory. Small forward Jerami Grant led…

The Portland Trail Blazers have lost four of their last six games, allowing some truly astonishing point totals in the midst of their futility. They don't seem crisp defensively. They look like a shadow of their early-season selves, when it appeared they had turned a corner on that end of the floor. This has given rise to plenty of questions…

NBA Regular Season Venue: American Airlines Center Home: Dallas Mavericks Away: Portland Trail Blazers 13.11.2022, @04:30 AM (03:00 UTC) Odds Bet Type Bookmaker Claim Bonus! Odds1862 Bet TypeIndividual Total 2 Over 105.5 Bookmaker Bet Now! The NBA Regular Season has been on and what a prolific start to the season. There has been a lot of see-saw…

The Portland Trail Blazers (10-7) will look to turn their fortunes around tonight after poor defense cost them a game against the Milwaukee Bucks earlier this week. The Cleveland Cavaliers (11-6), meanwhile, are coming in on a high note after soundly defeating the Atlanta Hawks in their last game. The Trail Blazers' three-game losing skid has…

MIL vs POR Dream11: The NBA is on and this has been another intriguing season as we have witnessed multiple times rise up to the occasion. However, the season is long and tenous so we see a lot of flip-flops in records. In this another intriguing NBA game, the Milwaukee Bucks are going to take on the Portland Trail Blazers. The Milwaukee Bucks come…

PHX vs POR Dream11: The NBA Regular Season has brought us brilliant battles and this has been a great start to the season. In the Western Conference scene, the teams have been packing the stuff up and this has been a loaded Conference since its inception. In this NBA game, the Phoenix Suns will take on the Portland Trail Blazers. The Suns come into…

After claiming that the Portland Trail Blazers roster was "blah", ESPN analysts Zach Lowe has changed his tune. Earlier this month, Lowe claimed, on his Lowe Post podcast, that Portland was mediocre, at best, among 2022-23 season prospects. This morning Lowe, joined by Sports Illustrated's Chris Herring, reversed his position, following the team's…

Portland Trail Blazers star Damian Lillard has no desire to play for any other team. He wants to win as a Trail Blazer. The six-time All-Star made his point clear to Logan Murdock of The Ringer. "I want to win as a Trail Blazer," Lillard explained. "I want to win a championship where I am, and I don't think I would feel the same joy and happiness…

Blazers follower Nick Pither assesses the 2021-22 season for his team, and then casts an eye ahead to the 2022-23 campaign for Portland. My love for the Blazers began with a game of NBA 2K11 (similar to a story written recently on this website). I bought it in a sale, and had a match-up against my sister who chose the Celtics. I found it hard to…

Ra'anana vs Portland Trail Blazers 10/6/2022 Picks Predictions Previews The Portland Trail Blazers play their final home exhibition game of the season on Thursday against Maccabi Ra'anana, an Israel-based professional basketball club, and there's a good chance many Portland regulars will sit down. Expect most of the Blazers' starters to be at rest…

LAC vs POR Dream11:The lore of the NBA is full of historic battles and rivalries that surpass generations. However, the Preseason isn't the true picture of what to expect. Players rest in one game, play big minutes in another. They can be on minutes restriction mostly but this is a matter of furthering NBA careers for many role players and deep…

This article is part of our NBA Team Previews series. Portland had a relatively eventful offseason but didn't lose too many meaningful players, which bodes well for this season. The Blazers re-signed Damian Lillard, Anfernee Simons, Jusuf Nurkic and Drew Eubanks. Notable additions include No. 7 pick Shaedon Sharpe, Jerami Grant and Gary…

After the narrow (yet thrilling) loss to the Memphis Grizzlies Wednesday night, I think it's safe to predict that the San Antonio Spurs will be over-matched once again in a contest against a Portland Trail Blazers team that's playing their best basketball of the year. Make no mistake, these Blazers are an absolute juggernaut right now, and even a…

On the afternoon of Jan. 30, the Chicago Bulls and second-year head coach Billy Donovan will get their final of the regular season at head coach Chauncey Billups and the Portland Trail Blazers. The main difference between this meeting with the Blazers compared to the one earlier in the regular season is the fact that Portland's superstar point…