Portland Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin entered the 2025 NBA Draft with a plan that no one outside the organization saw coming. The Blazers stole Yang Hansen, taking a worthwhile gamble on a widely projected second-round pick with the No. 16 overall selection. Cronin addressed the media after the unconventional selection, saying that Hansen was the target heading into the draft.
Former NBA player Gilbert Arenas said that Portland Trail Blazers guard Damian Lillard deserves more credit for his career than Kyrie Irving. Arenas also said that Lillard should have been more vocal during his career, and that may have impacted the reach of his popularity.
The Portland Trail Blazers are looking to make a leap in the ultra-tough Western Conference. 9 of their 15 active roster members have 3 or fewer years of experience. Portland fields 3 players above age 30 with 11 or more years of NBA service.
Josh Hart scored 44 points in 35 minutes against the Washington Wizards in 2022. Hart's performance was just about the only positive on-court moment of the 2021-22 season.
Wesley Matthews was a fan favorite practically from the moment he got to Portland. His best game as a Blazer, and maybe the best game of his 15-year NBA career, came early on in his tenure.
The Portland Trail Blazers finished off the 2024-25 season incredibly strong. They were firmly in the play-in conversation by the end of the season. To make this significant leap and become the next Pistons, their offense must catch up.
Damian Lillard is expected to miss the entirety of the 2025-26 season as he continues to rehab. The Blazers' young core will be nearing their collective prime when he is back on the court. Lillard doesn't need to be the best player to win a championship.
Donovan Clingan was drafted seventh overall in the 2024 NBA Draft out of UConn. One NBA pundit believes that he should have been taken even higher than he was last year. The Blazers drafted him with the idea that he could be the starting center of the future.
The Portland Trail Blazers will enter the 2025 regular season with major changes to the roster. If they hope to improve on their 36-victory mark from last year they’re going to have to find new and interesting combinations, first in the starting lineup then in major bench roles. What that might look like forms the core of today’s Edge Mailbag question.
The Portland Trail Blazers re-signed Damian Lillard to a three-year, $41.6 million free agent deal. Lillard was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in the summer of 2023. He was hurt during the playoffs in each of the past two seasons, and the Bucks ultimately were booted out of the first round.
The NBA Top 75 list left off a large group of extremely talented players, including Kyrie Irving. Gilbert Arenas believes Lillard’s body of work trumps Irving by a large margin. Rashad McCants had a stark opposing view.
The Portland Trail Blazers still owe the Chicago Bulls a first-round pick. The pick is lottery-protected, which makes it surprising that it's deemed so valuable. Sam Quinn of CBS Sports ranks the pick as the 15th most valuable traded first-rounder.
The Portland Trail Blazers said goodbye to four players this offseason. Deandre Ayton, Anfernee Simons, Jabari Walker and Dalano Banton are at the heart of today's question. Which of the departing players will play the best during the 2025-26 NBA season?
The Portland Trail Blazers have high hopes for Scoot Henderson in the 2025-26 season. The former third-overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft has had an interesting first two seasons. Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley names four players under 23 in the NBA who need a trade.
LaMarcus Aldridge will be eligible for Hall of Fame enshrinement in 2026. The big man was a perennial All-Star and one of the last of a dying breed of big men. Aldridge was diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome in 2011.
The Fire have eclipsed 13,000 season-ticket deposits ahead of their inaugural season at Moda Center next summer. It took the team seven months after last September's expansion team announcement to hire a president.
Greg Oden played exactly one season's worth of games for the Portland Trail Blazers. Oden is one of the NBA's definitive what-ifs this century.
The Portland Trail Blazers enter the season looking relatively competitive, but answers are still being sought about how the roster looks on opening night. The Western Conference is, as always, loaded with the only likely lottery team playing home games in Salt Lake City. The Blazers are nowhere close to being contenders, but their trajectory is definitely upwards after half a decade in the doldrums.
The Portland Trail Blazers traded Anfernee Simons for Jrue Holiday in the summer. Holiday is expected to play an important role for the Blazers in the 2025-26 season.
The 2025-26 season will be monumental for the Portland Trail Blazers. Head coach Chauncey Billups’ system has a new look with Donovan Clingan as the starting center. The Blazers also have Robert Williams III and Duop Reath as holdovers. With the addition of Yang Hansen through the 2025 NBA Draft, the Blazers have four centers.