Portland Trail Blazers point guard Damian Lillard is probably your 2012-2013 NBA Rookie of the Year, and deservedly so. He leads all rookies in scoring (18.4) and assists (6.5) while playing 38.5 minutes a game, good for the fourth in the league behind Luol Deng, Kevin Durant, and Nicolas Batum. The ... Read More

LeBron James set an NBA record on Tuesday night against the Portland Trailblazers, becoming the first player to score 30+ points in six straight games while shooting over 60 percent. Against the Blazers, LeBron went off for 30 points on 73.3 percent shooting and added nine assists and six boards just ... Read More

  Sometimes it's easy to forget Kevin Durant is 6'9", like when he shoots three-pointers with a stroke that a decent amount of guards in the NBA would like to have. Or when he effortlessly causes Sasha Pavlovic of the Portland Trail Blazers lose his balance with a crossover. http://youtu.be/0-pcXilbzxM Then there's Durant's ... Read More

    As the official statistician of MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, and the WNBA the Elias Sports Bureau provides a look into sports that goes beyond the home run saving grabs, made-for-highlight-reel stiffarms, and ankle breaking crossovers. They sift through the streaks, trends, and numbers to often provide us with interesting and little known bits of information about our ... Read More

1 of 2       The NBA's Las Vegas summer league wraps up tomorrow but we haven't been without a few impressive displays. Blazers rookie guard Damian Lillard has caught the attention of more than a few. So have Josh Selby of the Grizzlies and Kawhi Leonard of the Spurs, who are ... Read More

    The Portland Trailblazers started the 2011-2012 season 3-0 in an abbreviated December schedule. Since then their record has been progressively worse each each month. The Blazers finished January 9-9, were 6-8 in February, and are currently 2-6 in March. At the moment Portland is 20-23 and in 12th place in ... Read More

With the biggest target in trade talks Dwight Howard deciding to stay put for another season, the New Jersey Nets moved quickly to bring in pieces to persuade Deron Williams to stay by trading oft-injured center Mehmet Okur, forward Shawne Williams and a protected 2012 first round pick to the Portland Trail Blazers for ... Read More

  We've seen a few guys become victims of some pretty nasty ankle breaking crossovers recently. Russell Westbrook got Luke Ridnour with this one. JR Smith broke three pairs of ankles over in China (including one-time NBA star Stephon Marbury) in the same game. The NBA asked a few players who ... Read More