Rumors

Portland’s forward was also asked if he is going to give any advice to the coaching stuff about Doncic, since he has faced him many times in the NBA: “I am going to give advice behind closed doors, because I don’t want to give away any secrets. He is a very good player, he is very versatile, and it’s not easy to stop him, but I believe in our guys”.

EuroHoops.net

Brett Siegel: Number of National TV games for 2025-26 NBA season (ESPN, ABC, NBC, & Amazon): Atlanta: 13, Boston: 25, Brooklyn: 2, Charlotte: 3, Chicago: 3, Cleveland: 24, Dallas: 23, Denver: 26, Detroit: 16, Golden State: 34, Houston: 28, Indiana: 9, Los Angeles Clippers: 21, Los Angeles Lakers: 34, Memphis: 10, Miami: 5, Milwaukee: 18, Minnesota: 28, New Orleans: 2, New York: 34, Oklahoma City: 34, Orlando: 14, Philadelphia: 14, Phoenix: 9, Portland: 8, Sacramento: 9, San Antonio: 22, Toronto: 2, Utah: 2, Washington: 2

x.com

A source familiar with the proceedings said the group “is passionate about basketball and intends to keep the team in Portland, where it belongs.” That assertion comes as a relief after significant angst arose about the franchise’s future when Jody Allen, the sister of longtime owner Paul Allen, announced plans to sell the team in May, seven year’s after her brother died from complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma.

Oregonian

Others in the group include Blue Owl Capital co-president Marc Zahr and Portland-based Sheel Tyle, co-CEO of Collective Global, according to the people, who were granted anonymity because the details were private. The new group intends to keep the team in Portland, the people said.

Sportico

Portland Mayor Keith Wilson met with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in early June to show the city’s commitment to keeping the Trail Blazers in Rip City. That’s according to Wilson’s quarterly calendar, which was released Tuesday. Wilson had a half-hour call with Silver on June 4. The meeting appears on Wilson’s schedule sandwiched between a discussion about a contract with the Salvation Army to run a homeless shelter and before an annual luncheon for the city’s chamber of commerce.

opb.org

Lillard always saw himself back in Portland, sources said, telling people close to him that he planned to end his career with the Blazers even before he was traded to Milwaukee.

ESPN

Goodwin communicated to the Blazers that Lillard would stay in Portland, but after months of speculation, the team wanted to resolve the request by training camp, sources told ESPN. With a week to go, Lillard was traded to Milwaukee. "More than anything, it was miscommunications and misunderstandings," Lillard said. "Joe and I never talked about [a potential return]. It just sat out there and we let it be what it was, I think that was the mistake." But just a few months after the trade, steps toward a potential reunion started to take shape. Goodwin and Cronin had a conversation in January, where they identified the gaps in their communication and said that if there were any hard feelings, they had long since dissipated.

ESPN

As the calendar flips to August, Russell Westbrook is still a free agent. In the summer of reunions that sees Damian Lillard return to Portland and Chris Paul return to the Clippers, the outcries from Thunder fans have only grown to bring back their franchise icon, floundering in free agency. There are only two problems. The Thunder don't have a roster spot and Westbrook doesn't fit this iteration of the team.

Sports Illustrated

Michael Scotto: Just In: The Portland Trail Blazers will fully guarantee the $2.22 million salary of Duop Reath for the 2025-26 season, sources told @hoopshype. Reath has averaged 7.1 points, including 35% shooting from 3-point range, and 3.0 rebounds in 14.8 minutes in two seasons with Portland

Twitter

In a letter to the NBA Commissioner, Gov. Tina Kotek and Portland Mayor Keith Wilson made it clear they want to see the Portland Trail Blazers stay in the city and the Moda Center renovated. “The Portland Trail Blazers are more than a part of our history — they are part of our future,” Kotek and Wilson wrote in a letter Tuesday. The letter marks the first significant public lobbying from two of Oregon’s most prominent politicians on the fate of the Blazers and the publicly-owned arena they call home.

opb.org

Kerry Eggers: A group called "Rip City Forever," organized by Chris Dudley, Marshall Glickman, Erin Hubert, Joth Ricci & Ryan Buchanan, has been established to try to ensure that @trailblazers remain in Portland. More than 100 community leaders & ex-Blazers have written an open letter to mayor

Twitter

Do you see your future there? Deni Avdija: “I see my future in a club that believes in me, gives me the reins, loves me and wants me to succeed. Right now that club is called Portland.” Can you be a player they build a team around? Deni Avdija: “I proved to myself that I have the traits to be a player who is seen as highly dominant in the roster. I won’t say I’m God and they need to build around me, but I feel the team really considers my presence.”

Ynet

Injuries played a big role in the results for the Bucks the last two years. Does it feel like your time here was incomplete because of that? Damian Lillard: So I think it’s kind of unfair how people was like Dame (isn’t the same) because of the way I played in Portland. I had the ball all the time, so it just looked different. But I think for how productive I actually was I think it’s been viewed unfairly. Because how many other people have averaged 25 a game with seven assists as the No. 1 option, let alone playing with somebody like Giannis? But I wouldn’t say it was incomplete. I thought we just couldn’t stay healthy. I think that’s the biggest hurdle. That was our biggest hurdle and each year that was the case.”

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel

I was told just even a week ago—don’t count out Portland. Like, you cannot put a price on family. You cannot put a price on missing your children. And Dame is a serious family man who loves his kids, right? Also, he was not happy in Milwaukee. He didn’t want to go there in the first place. He wanted to go to Miami. He relented and went to Milwaukee because his agent talked him into it, right? It gave him a chance to win. He wasn’t necessarily happy. There wasn’t anything against Milwaukee or the Bucks or anything like that, but he didn’t necessarily want to be there. He did want to win, but the fit never really worked out. He got there late his first year, then Doc comes in, changes things around. Plus, Giannis got hurt last year before the playoffs—missed the series against the Pacers—they lost. And then this year, he had the blood clot, and then he had the Achilles, right?

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