Portland Trail Blazers respond to backlash and renege on decision to have TV broadcast call road games remotely
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Trail Blazers announcers will broadcast road games remotely
The Blazers seem to be the only team in the NBA doing this.
By cutting off questions on Chauncey Billups’ past, Trail Blazers made their new head coach look bad
General manager Neil Olshey and the Blazers' PR staff handled this badly.
Kevin Calabro is reportedly returning to Blazers’ broadcasts this coming season
Calabro stepped down ahead of the 2019-20 season's resumption, but now it seems like he may be coming back.
The Blazers are moving to Root Sports this fall, which seems to mark the end for NBC Sports Northwest
After 14 seasons on CSN Northwest/NBC Sports Northwest, the Blazers are leaving for Root Sports.
Jeff Van Gundy, Chauncey Billups among rumored candidates for Trail Blazers’ head-coach opening
Van Gundy could've had the Rockets job last year if he wanted it.
Grizzlies-Blazers becomes 16th NBA game postponed within first month of the season
21 of the NBA's 30 teams have now had at least one game postponed.
Trail Blazers-Lakers averaged 4.41 million viewers Friday, ESPN’s second-largest NBA regular season audience ever
The only higher-viewed regular-season game ever on ESPN was Lakers-Rockets in 2003, the first game between Shaquille O'Neal and Yao Ming.
ESPN goes 0-for-4 on team logos for NBA Friday promo
Pelicans-Rockets and Mavericks-Suns are *not* the scheduled ESPN games. But those are definitely their logos.
Warriors-Blazers drew viewers despite sweep: fourth-highest CF average ever for ESPN, up from 2017 WCF
The Western Conference Finals didn't look great from a market standpoint, but wound up being a ratings win for ESPN even with only four games.
News reporter says ‘cannabis is plentiful here in Portland’ after fan predicts Blazers will win NBA title
"As you can see, cannabis is plentiful here in Portland."
Blazers CEO takes massive issue with Oregonian article collecting “best memes and jokes” from Game 3 loss
CEO Chris McGowan tweeted, "As long as I am in charge, I will make sure we don't spend another dime with them. This is ridiculous."
Portland’s C.J. McCollum actually met Jennifer from the ‘I’m Trying Jennifer’ tweet
He tried, Jennifer. And he did it.
