BTW the Blazers play the Traeless Hawks and the Traeful Wizards later this month.

Can anyone explain to me exactly why the Wizards would want Trae Young? I'm assuming that has been explained somewhere, and I just missed it, yes?

In that case, maybe they'll flip him to Sacramento for Zach Lavine and picks. Surely Trae will fix what's broken with the Kings.

I assume they'd just be gathering draft and/or (non-Trae) young assets, OKC-style. The only downside is that they can't easily flip him to a desperate team for even more assets anymore, like OKC mastered before the new CBA.

It's almost as if the new, more restrictive NBA CBA has made teams tighten their belts and quickly realize that players like Trae Young, CJ McCollum, and Anfernee Simons actually aren't that valuable.

(Someone's gonna yell at me for this.)

I cannot think of anything I'd be willing to trade to acquire Trae Young, and that's before seeing he's making $45 million per season.

You beat me to it by 12 minutes. Also, there's usually a sign somewhere in the Freddy's grocery entrance area about it.

The Jazz are now tied with the Blazers in the standings, and have almost as easy of a remaining schedule. I'm curious if their front office shrugs and says "oh well, go for the play-in, and maybe we'll get lucky with ping-pong balls, too."

Narrator: "The Blazers did not put the Clippers away."

The Portland Trail Blazers just tried to do a showboat alley-oop while down 16 with just over 30 seconds left in the game. And they airballed the dunk.

You know your team isn't playing well when their opponent is literally letting them score layups, so they can get the ball back and let the game end.

OMG stop complaining.

I really expected to come back to the Blazers blowing out the Clippers, but things are going fine enough, it looks like. No December loss is ever that big of a deal, but a Portland loss tonight would be kind of ominous, so I expect them to put the Clippers away.

A random reminder that two of the Blazers' next three games are not on BlazerVision:

- Tonight vs. Clippers (Prime Video)
- Monday vs. Mavericks (NBC/Peacock)

Interestingly, Dec. 31 at OKC will also be shown on NBA TV, so 3 of Portland's next 4 games are nationally televised/streamed.

Amazingly, the Blazers are better, they were 7-21 on Christmas 2023!

Fun random tidbit: Just over two years after the Damian Lillard trade, the Blazers and Bucks have the exact same record (12-18) on Christmas Day 2025.

Do you ever have a moment where you watch OKC and San Antonio play basketball this season, and kind of wonder if there's any point to this for the rest of us?

We're less than 10 years away from 15-year old NBA fans saying, "Really? You had to watch local games through some weird random cable network and it kept changing names? You couldn't just stream them all from the NBA like we do now?"

So what new, dumb method will the Blazers devise to somehow beat the powerhouse Kings tonight?

If the NBA expands, I think it's a no-brainer to move the Timberwolves to the East. All the Wolves' closest neighbors (like the Pistons, Bucks, Pacers) are already in the Eastern Conference, but Memphis and New Orleans both have close neighbors (each other, OKC, and Texas) in the Western Conference.

This feels a little like trying to swat at a gnat while a swarm of bees are around you. It's VERY hard to tell how pervasive gambling problems are.

The NBA seems to have an attitude of "instead of being proactive about gambling, we'll just make changes to areas that become publicly embarrassing."

The honest truth is that I couldn't care any less about the result of an early-season NBA tournament, but I do like watching really good teams play each other, regardless of whether it's played on an ugly court.

The NBA has been looking at Las Vegas and Seattle as potential new markets, Silver said, while mentioning there are others, too.

There should be a word that describes the feeling you have when you see a name trending, and you're worried you're about to find out they're either dead or crazy.

It's relatively recent!

A Trail Blazers TV Guide for Seattle See where to find HD broadcasts of the Trail Blazers in Seattle.

Yup! @cbergin.bsky.social wrote it up recently. The schedule is here:
www.blazersedge.com/trail-blazer...

So we can safely assume the Blazers will leave it all on the court and bring the heat against the Warriors tonight, yes? Since they've had days to ponder their dreadful performance against the Pelicans (and Grizzlies before that), and will get back their starting center?

The December 29th game between the Blazers and Mavs has been moved from an 8 pm start time to 7:30. Plan accordingly.

With the Mavs' win tonight, the Blazers have officially fallen into sole possession of 12th place in the West.

The day after the Blazers sleepwalked through an ugly loss to the Pelicans despite three days rest, Jabari Walker shows up on this list to needle you just a little extra. Bonus points for Zach Edey using Donovan Clingan's draft position as motivation.