{"id":532683,"date":"2026-01-12T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532683\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:04:13","slug":"the-trail-blazers-get-a-strange-shout-out-from-nikki-glaser-at-the-golden-globes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/532683\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trail Blazers get a strange shout-out from Nikki Glaser at the Golden Globes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment probably was more confusing than funny for most of those watching the 83rd Golden Globes<\/a> on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

But it likely drew some smiles from a particular set of sports fans. After all, if you know, you know.<\/p>\n

As host Nikki Glaser<\/a> welcomed the next presenters to the stage at the Beverly Hilton, she made an out-of-nowhere reference to an NBA team from five decades ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour next presenters famously led the 1977 Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> to an NBA championship,\u201d Glaser said. \u201cPlease welcome Chris Pine<\/a> and Ana de Armas<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wait a second. Pine and de Armas are obviously actors, not professional basketball players. Neither Pine, 45, nor de Armas, 37, were even alive when the Blazers won their lone NBA title.<\/p>\n

No real Blazers players, current or former, were anywhere to be seen on Sunday. So, what was the joke and why was it included in the show?<\/p>\n

Call it an Easter egg from the mind of famous Blazers fan Ian Karmel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cGuilty,\u201d the former Portland comedian wrote on Bluesky<\/a> when someone correctly guessed that the joke must have come from him.<\/p>\n

Karmel was among the writers for the show as Glaser hosted it for the second year in a row. And Karmel has not been shy about his Blazers fandom, even previously appearing during broadcasts and postgame shows.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s Golden Globes show went on without skipping a beat after Glaser\u2019s Blazers shout-out. Pine and de Armas took the stage and announced the nominees for best female actor in a motion picture drama. For the record, Jessie Buckley took home the award for \u201cHamnet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The moment probably was more confusing than funny for most of those watching the 83rd Golden Globes on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,4483,601,3068,6,687,471,3967,1597,4484,1617],"class_list":["post-532683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-bestof","tag-blazers","tag-inside","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-show","tag-topix","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115884632585253241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}