Why Paul Allen and the Portland Trail Blazers Must Hire a GM by the End of May

After a truly head-scratching season for the Portland Trail Blazers where they appeared to be a lower seeded playoff team, they shifted the tides by trading Gerald Wallace and Marcus Camby, bottoming out for a draft pick in the process.The Trail Blazers' management will have a lot of decisions to make this offseason regarding free agents. Despite looking like a team in the running to make the playoffs at times last season against competing teams like the Utah Jazz, Houston Rockets and Phoenix...

Greg Oden’s recent interview with Grantland’s Mark Titus shed a lot of light on the bad things that have happened throughout the young player’s career. Oden and the Portland Trail Blazers recently parted ways, but thinking back five years, there were more than enough reasons why the team chose Oden over Kevin Durant in the 2007 NBA draft. Knowing what we know now, if the Blazers could do the draft again, it’s safe to say they’d honk twice and select Durant.At the...

Would the Blazers Be in the Conference Finals If Portland Drafted Kevin Durant?

Portland Trail Blazers: Stan Van Gundy and Otis Smith Can Fix the Blazers

We all know what a disappointing season it was for the Portland Trail Blazers.After being considered one of the up-and-coming teams only a few years ago, the Blazers have certainly taken a few steps back.Part of the problem was bad management, and part of the problem was poor performances by the players.But the biggest issue was just plain old-fashioned bad luck, the kind that Portland has in abundance.So rather than go down the list of bad issues that have plagued this team, let's instead fo...

The Portland Trail Blazers have a number of holes to fill heading into the 2012-13 season, and while the point guard spot seems to be the most pressing, finding a reliable big man is right there on the priority list this summer. Greg Oden was supposed to be the center of the future, but with the often-injured big man no longer on the team, it’s time to get back to the drawing board.Begin Slideshow

Portland Blazers Draft Targets: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, SF, Kentucky

Greg Oden has taken another step toward making his NBA comeback. A week after a lengthy interview with Mark Titus of Grantland detailing his journey from first overall pick to out of the league hoping for a comeback, ESPN’s Chris Broussard reports that Oden underwent a non-evasive procedure in New York to accelerate the healing process in his left knee.  The procedure is the same one that Kobe Bryant underwent in Germany over the offseason.  Bryant underwent the procedur...

Portland Trail Blazers Draft Targets: Andre Drummond, C, Connecticut