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Incredibly cool to be named Oregon Sportswriter of the Year—even more so because it’s not the kind of thing I’ve ever chased or that folks doing this independently and not with a legacy outlet typically win or are even nominated for. Very appreciative of all my readers and…
Our 2023 State Winners:
OREGON SPORTSCASTER OF THE YEAR
@BrennaGreene_
OREGON SPORTSWRITER OF THE YEAR (TIE)
@DemiNLawrence
@highkin
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Damian Lillard on getting vaccinated: "I'm not mad at people who say they need to do their research. But I have a lot of people in my family that I spend time around. I'm just not going to put their lives in danger. As a kid, I had to get shots my whole life."
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Damian Lillard on the Draymond Green-Jordan Poole altercation:
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LeBron 🤝 Mark Cuban
Not raising a strong objection to the play-in until it looked like his team might be in it
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Good job by TNT running the clip of him saying "I'm in a unique position with the influence I have" and the clip of him saying "You guys are making up this influence I have" back-to-back.
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Josh Hart appears to have left the court with a few minutes to go before tip. Was dapping/hugging teammates.
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Damian Lillard on what he said to Deandre Ayton at the foul line at the end: "I just asked him, 'have you ever been in this situation before?' I wanted him to think about it a little bit. And then when he ignored me, I felt like he was thinking about it."
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No joke: when Dame came into the locker room tonight he had a band-aid on his arm because the league drew blood for a drug test.
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Damian Lillard: "I don't disagree that maybe Chauncey can change our team and make us a better team. But I think if you look at our team as it is, I don't see how you say 'this is a championship team, we just need a new coach.'"
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Jusuf Nurkic references "clowns" who say he was "the worst defensive player in the league." Asked who he's referring to: "The guy at ESPN. The big fella. Perkins. I guess if he was in the league today he'd be a mascot. And I like him as a person."
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Damian Lillard: "I don't only want to win a championship. I want to do it in this city. I want to have a parade down Broadway and ride past El Gaucho."
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Chauncey Billups: "I've never seen a team that needs its bench to inspire our starters. That shit is crazy to me. It's supposed to be the other way around."
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Damian Lillard: "We're not the Brooklyn Nets. They have superstar power. You know the ability of that team. One day they can get hot and run you out of the gym. We're not that team. But we've been in a ditch and we're figuring out a way to get out of it."
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Posting a green square on Instagram in solidarity with the Celtics' logo Kyrie stepped on
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Robert Williams III on Scoot Henderson: "That motherfucker's fast."
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LeBron in late March, 2020: "You got Portland. You got Memphis...New Orleans and Sacramento tinkering around there...so if there's five or ten games left...why not those guys battle it out? Make them play each other all five games?"
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I definitely didn't have Dame thanking me by name in his farewell message as something I was expecting...
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Russ, asked in 2015 why he never did the dunk contest: “I only dunk on people.”
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I asked Neil Olshey for more details about the investigation. "That's proprietary, Sean. You're just going to have to take our word that we hired an experienced firm that led us to the results we already discussed."
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Scoot Henderson said he's only working out with two teams -- Portland and Charlotte.
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Dame: "Honestly, I was like, 'Are y'all serious?' They did the urine test last night and then they backed it up with the blood test after the game. What makes it worse is I'm afraid of needles, too."
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"Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks"
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Damian Lillard says Gary Payton II participated fully in practice today.
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Malcolm Brogdon today at practice on coming off the bench behind a rookie: “I think it’s honestly important for Scoot to get this experience, starting. He’s going to be the franchise player going forward, so he has to be invested in and given that opportunity.”
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Damian Lillard: "My intention and my heart is set on being in a Trail Blazers uniform for my entire career. But over time ... you want to win it all. And we have to make strides to do that."
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I love that the Jazz are doing this because it just proves that predictions are fake and none of us actually know anything.
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There is an obvious team for LeBron to do the farewell tour with Bronny and it's not the Cavs.
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Dalen Terry on being projected as a late first-rounder: “There’s gonna be a redraft in 10 years and it’s gonna be different.”
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The SportsCenter account commenting like this is so funny to me
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I didn't realize Brooke and DA lived next door to each other and had to take the same route to get to the arena.
Blazers sideline reporter braved broken foot and icy conditions to make it to game that DeAndre Ayton missed
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The Dame Trade Package™️ lost that game for the Heat. That's tough
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Loved this from Jabari Walker in Vegas this week:
"My dad taught me that a 'role player' isn't a bad thing. You can make a lot of money being a role player. You can be a starter being a role player. A lot of people don't embrace that. So that's going to be an advantage for me."
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Pau Gasol with a new submission for my favorite genre of photo: 7-footers looking tiny standing next to Yao Ming
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I asked Damian Lillard if he thinks there need to be changes: "We didn't win a championship, so where we are right now isn't good enough if we can't get out of the first round against a team without two of their three or four best players."
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First time Damian Lillard has ever been booed in this building was when he admitted in a video segment that he's never been to the Oregon coast.
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Nets are so far gone they can't even win the Fired Coach Game. Everyone wins the Fired Coach Game.
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Hart is still listed as a starter on the scoreboard but has not returned to the court during warmups.
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Statement from Blazers general manager Joe Cronin to me:
"I met with Dame and Aaron Goodwin this afternoon. We had a great dialogue. We remain committed to building a winner around Dame."
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Damian Lillard: "I don't have much of an appetite for building with guys 2 and 3 years away and not really go after it."
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Dame's agent having to issue a statement about a song playing on the PA at a restaurant he was at is the dumbest thing that's ever come out of this entire saga and that's a high bar.
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Gary Payton II is now listed in the starting lineup instead of Hart.
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We just made it through Dame’s entire ~15-minute All-Star media availability without one question about his loyalty to Portland. Upset of the weekend.
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Klay Thompson: “I love playing in Portland, man. I have some great memories coming to the Rose Garden as a kid.”
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Matisse Thybulle on Scoot Henderson:
"The thing that's been coolest to see is when we've been in more situational scrimmage play, where teams need stops, Scoot has been the guy coming up with a lot of the stops. A lot of times, when a guy comes in as a scorer everyone talks…
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CJ McCollum says he got a text from Terry Stotts this morning.
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Shaedon Sharpe on playing with Scoot Henderson: “I think we can lead us to another chip at Summer League.”
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I believe this is the first social justice slogan jersey from the bubble that I’ve actually seen in public, and it’s an Andre Iguodala “GROUP ECONOMICS” Heat jersey in Portland.
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The Blazers’ PR department gives us printouts with names/headshots/info on the players they’re working out. Usually it’s very helpful because most of the guys they’ve brought in are projected second-rounders we don’t know much about.
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For all of Westbrook's flaws as a player I have never heard anything in 15 years about him being a bad guy or a bad teammate.
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Damian Lillard on his expectations for the 3-point contest tonight: “I expect to win.”
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Damian Lillard on speculation picking up if the team starts slow: “I’ll answer that the same way I answered it on media day. I’m not leaving Portland. … It’s an easy thing and a popular thing to say but it’s not gonna happen.”
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I'm sure the Nets will be fully transparent about their investigation into Udoka as front offices typically are in these scenarios.
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Matisse Thybulle on returning to the Pacific Northwest: "It's home to me. I've done countless weekend trips with my friends from Seattle to Portland. I've done all the hikes and seen all the waterfalls out here."
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Damian Lillard on whether he's the greatest Blazer ever: "That's not for me to say. When you're great, you don't have to tell everybody. Everybody will tell you."
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Larry Nance Jr.: "Ohio is a little ... behind in the times. Portland is very progressive and I love that. I think I'm going to fit in a lot better here." Also says he's a huge soccer fan and is looking forward to taking his daughter to Timbers and Thorns matches.
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Damian Lillard on the Nuggets' belief that they've found the magic bullet in the adjustment of having Aaron Gordon guard him: "We'll see."
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Damian Lillard says he watches a lot of Blazers games, mostly because he’s so close with Anfernee Simons and wants to keep up with how he’s doing. Says they talk and text often.
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Scoot Henderson, speaking at Summer League practice on Damian Lillard’s trade request: “I’d love to play with him. We have a great relationship. But whatever happens, happens.”
On being face of the franchise if Dame is traded: “I’m ready to embrace that.”
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GP2 is the biggest shit talker the Blazers have had since Mario Hezonja, with the difference being that he's also a good basketball player.
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Today, Jerami Grant becomes eligible for a four-year, $112 million extension with the Blazers. It’s been a near-perfect marriage, and getting a deal done should be a no-brainer for both sides.
Free to all on
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This is ... very surprising.
The Trail Blazers are waiving forward Trendon Watford, sources tell ESPN. Watford, 22, had two productive seasons with Portland and joins the free agent market with some upside value for teams.
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The fan chugging the beer is in a Duop Reath jersey. He and his entire friend group lost their minds when he hit that three just now.
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Huge loss for Knicks beat writers that they won't get to carry on the 15-year tradition of asking LeBron how special it is to play at MSG.
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Damian Lillard: "There's only one thing left to accomplish, and I think y'all know what that is. ... We've just got to get this one last thing done, and that will wrap this up and finish the script for me."
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Chauncey Billups says Damian Lillard is “moving different” as compared to last training camp and has his “zero-to-sixty burst” back.
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Joe Cronin: "I don't feel that I did everything I could because I didn't get done what I needed to get done. In that sense, I do feel like I failed Dame. Our goal was to win now as quickly as possible. If he didn't feel that way, it was a failure on my end.
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Worth noting, earlier this summer the Bucks hired Terry Stotts as lead assistant on Adrian Griffin's coaching staff.
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Jusuf Nurkic: "My contract is non-guaranteed so I don't know if I'll be back. I'll let Rich Paul my agent figure that out. I don't know if I'll be back. I don't know what the direction of the team will be."
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Norm Powell and Robert Covington vs. CJ McCollum to decide if Portland gets a second first-round pick or not.
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News of the Blazers leaving the broadcast team at home is going over well on r/ripcity
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Andrew Wiggins’ reasoning for not wanting to get vaccinated was mostly nonsense but at least he went on the record with it and didn’t just let anonymous sources say he wants to be a “voice for the voiceless”
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Shaedon Sharpe says he wants to play Summer League. "I love to play basketball. Any opportunity I get to play, I'll take it."
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The Blazers are bad but the vibes are a complete 180 from a week ago. You can feel a shift in energy in the building.
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Damian Lillard, addressing the crowd: “A tough season, a lot of adversity this year. A lot of things came up that we didn’t expect. But I want you to know one thing: this will not continue. Next year we’re gonna be back better than before.”
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Damian Lillard on Shaedon Sharpe's recent struggles: "A rookie wall is normal. You play off your talent and then as teams start to get more familiar with you, they make it more difficult. That's when you've got to become a student. Those are the conversations I have with him."
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We're going to be talking about Shaedon as the Blazers' best player by the end of the season, if he's not there already.
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Wiggins: “It’s not something I wanted to do. But I was kind of forced into it. … I guess to do certain stuff and to work, you don’t own your body. Hopefully there’s people who are stronger than me and keep fighting for what they believe in.”
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Josh Hart: "I'm not a No. 1 scoring option. I'm not quite a No. 2. I'd say I can be a 2 and a half. I know my role. I know my niche in the league."
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Damian Lillard, addressing tonight's revelation that he's never been to the Oregon coast: "Never been. I just haven't. That's not a lie. Everybody in my family has been, but not me. I'll make down there eventually. After this, there's gonna be pressure on me to go."
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Some news: Brandon Roy will represent the Blazers at the lottery next week in Chicago, just as he did in 2007, the last time Portland won the No. 1 overall pick.
Story:
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Damian Lillard: “How can you say you have my best interests in mind if you don’t know me? I’d never say to somebody that I have their best interests in mind if I don’t know them, and mean it.”
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Chauncey Billups: “We lost a lot of basketball games to get Shaedon Sharpe. Let’s play the kid.” Says Sharpe made great strides defensively in the week of practices between preseason and opening night that convinced him he was ready.
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Damian Lillard says Shaedon Sharpe is “way more talented” than he was at 19.
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According to a league source, Blazers were not made aware of any concerns with Gary Payton II's medicals—either from Warriors organization or any media outlet reporting it—prior to the Athletic story being published.
Full story on the trade going through:
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The next update I want to hear about Ben Simmons is when he actually gets traded. I’m over the competing leaks about the validity of his mental health issues.
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Shaedon Sharpe says he expects to play with the Canadian national team next summer in the Olympics.
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Anthony Edwards on how it feels to take over a game like he did tonight: "I feel like Black Jesus."
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Jusuf Nurkic on the direction of the Blazers franchise: "I would say, interesting."
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