Portland Trail Blazers Archive

  • Blazers Take Game Three
    April 22, 2011

    The Blazers have life.  Portland fed off a raucous Rose Garden crowd last night to take down the Dallas Mavericks in Game Three of the two teams’ first-round matchup.  Wesley Mathews was the high man for the Blazers, dropping 25 points in the contest after getting off to a scorching start in the first quarter.  After barely playing in Game Two, Brandon Roy came off the bench to chip in 16 points in the contest.  “I was playing tonight.  I was in go mode,” Roy told reporters.  ”I didn’t worry about nothing else.  I didn’t worry about playing time, I didn’t worry about who was playing.  When it was my time I was going.”

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  • NBA Awards Watch
    March 9, 2011

    Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose is the MVP to this point in the season, according to ESPN’s Maurice Brooks and his Awards Watch.  “While the Heat continue to struggle against elite teams, Rose and the Bulls have owned those matchups (11-6),” Brooks writes.  ”He is top 10 in the league in assists and scoring.”  Rose has consistently put the team on his back late in games and has the Bulls in the running for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.  Rose, just in his third season in the pros, is certainly making good on all the potential he showed when the team selected him with the top pick in the 2008 NBA Draft.

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