The Trail Blazers took their first loss of the season last night, falling to the Memphis Grizzlies, 124-103. Unfortunately, the game itself wasn't the team's only loss of the night. During the game, start point guard Ja Morant excited early with a left hamstring injury. While we hoped for the best, the injury news is not great. The team announced early Friday that Morant sustained a Grade 2 left hamstring strain and will be reevaluated in four weeks. In Thursday's contest aga

The Portland Trail Blazers announced on Thursday that they have exercised the 2027-28 team options on young Centers Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen.

The Trail Blazers have finally found their new television play-by-play voice, and they didn't have to look very far to find him. According to Joe Freeman of the Oregonian, the Trail Blazers will lean on radio voice Travis Demers to assume play-by-play duties for the TV broadcast this season. The move, hopefully, puts an end to a rocky month of October for Portland. It was on October 1st that the Trail Blazers announced they had hired young up and coming broadcaster Braiden Be

One preseason game down, three to go! The regular season is just a little more than a week away, and we're here to talk about how we feel. Keith and Dave take to the mic to breakdown what they saw vs Golden State and look forward to the regular season, on this episode of The Trailcasters. Enjoy!

Hi Adam, Parasocial relationships are weird, so I’ll just talk to you like a person, not a distant power broker. I grew up in the Portland area loving the Trail Blazers. Tom Dundon’s ownership group is driving a wedge between our city and our team, and I’m asking you to help fix it. This letter draws on the reporting linked below, especially Jason Quick’s “Tom Dundon’s Blazers can’t avoid drama. Instead, it’s all about Dundon.” If you can, subscribe to The Athletic and read

Braiden Bell's time behind the mic for the Portland Trail Blazers ended before it ever had a chance to truly begin. On Thursday afternoon the team announced the hire of Bell. A young up and comer tasked with replacing the legendary Kevin Calabro. The announcement was met with excitement. Bell was seen engaging with fans on social media and was looking forward to his start in PDX. Then, it all came crashing down. Hours after the hire was announced, the plug was pulled. Local n

The Trail Blazers have found their new television play-by-play voice. The team announced early Thursday that Braiden Bell has been tabbed to take over for the legendary Kevin Calabro on the mic. Bell, a graduate of Arizona State’s famed Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, comes to Portland after a stint as the lead play-by-play voice for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury and the G-League’s Valley Suns. In the teams press release, President of Basketball Op

Training camp starting can only mean one thing — MEDIA DAY! On Monday, media members gathered at Moda Center to meet and ask questions of the 2006-2027 Portland Trail Blazers. A long day, with plenty of smiles. Media were happy to be back on the beat, and it was clear the players were ready to hit the court and get training camp rolling. How will the Blazers look this season? What are the early thoughts on new additions like head coach Micha Nori and superstar Ja Morant? What

After 18 seasons in the NBA, former Trail Blazers small forward Nic Batum is hanging up his basketball shoes.

The Trail Blazers season is so close, we can taste it! The annual media day event is September 28, while the ever exciting Fan Fast is October 4! That's not all though, because on October 7 we get our first of four preseason games, as the Blazers welcome the Golden State Warriors to Moda Center! Game 1 of 82 - October 21 vs the Suns. So, with Blazers basketball right around the corner, what are you looking forward to most? Well, Chris Burkhardt let's us know what he is lookin

A few days ago we released a short video with the Rose City Central crew as a chance to get to know the names and faces behind the project. You can watch that video here. Unfortunatley we were missing a member at the time. The one and only, Jamie Hudson! Jamie had some travel issues that evening and had to postpone, but now, back with her boots on the ground in PDX, she is carving out the time! So, we sat down with the host of The Scoop to talk about her time as a reporter, w

HELLLLLOOOO RIP CITY! Now that we have announced our return, we better get to work! For the first time since December of 2023, Keith and the crew dusted off the mics and got a new episode dropped! Episode 229, and in this new era, Episode 1 as a member of the Rose City Central family! Topics include: The story behind the Trailcasters A trip down memory lane: How Keith and Dave became fans A look at the roster and early season predictions and more!!! Enjoy.

Welcome to ground level. The start of something special. The birth of a brand. Welcome to Rose City Central.

There are memories that fade, and there are memories that calcify into personal mythology. Mine happened on a Friday in the winter of 1990, somewhere between a foot of Pacific Northwest slush and a fourth-quarter Portland Trail Blazers beatdown of the Boston Celtics. I was a kid in Beaverton, which meant winter operated on a very specific, very fragile logic: the entire regional infrastructure could be brought to its knees by an amount of snow that a Minnesotan would call "Tu

First of all, thank you all so much for the early support here on our launch day! We have shared lots of content, and there has been a lot to digest, but the love we have seen has not gone unappreciated. As we have stated, we really want to focus on creating some great video content to live on YouTube throughout the year. To get the ball rolling, the crew got together to film a video just for you all to get to know the people behind the brand. Unfortunately, Jamie was not ava

Welcome in, Bucket Busters! This is the Busted Bucket Podcast!

Welcome into the 19:77 Podcast, a podcast that runs 19 minutes and 77 seconds in honor of your 1977 World Champion Portland Trail Blazers...

Hearing "The Scoop with Jamie Hudson and Chris Burkhardt" might bring back a few memories. Years ago, The Scoop was where we hung out before tip-off and after the final buzzer with Blazers fans live on Facebook and on Comcast SportsNet Northwest's website. It was where we talked Blazers basketball, shared stories from around the team, broke down the night's biggest moments, and connected with the best fans in the NBA. Those shows eventually came to an end. But the conversatio

Hellllooooooo, Rip City! Whether you are in town or out of town, from every corner of the interwebs, it's time to get to know the Trailcasters!