The Portland Trail Blazers were established in 1970. Since that inaugural season, in which they earned a 29-53 record, the Blazers have provided 56 years of thrills, heartache, and mostly-excellent basketball.<\/p>\n
That said, not all seasons are created equal. That\u2019s why we\u2019re asking you today to name your absolute favorite Portland Trail Blazers season (and by extension, team) of all time. You can use any reasoning you wish. It\u2019s a wholly subjective question. The only guidelines are that we\u2019re not looking for your favorite player or era. It\u2019s super easy to say, \u201cClyde Drexler\u2019s prime,\u201d or, \u201cThe Damian Lillard Era\u201d. We\u2019re looking for a specific season. Share why it\u2019s your favorite too. What happened to you or the team that bonded you to that year? Which players did you attach to or admire most? What was the story of the season for you?<\/p>\n
For me, personally, the year was 1990-91 when the Blazers won a franchise-record 63 games. They had been to the 1990 NBA Finals, of course, but that campaign kind of snuck up on people. We knew the Blazers would be good, but not that good! In 1990-91 everyone came into the year with ultra-high expectations, championship or bust. During the regular season, at least, the team delivered. They won more than 3 out of ever 4 games. Clyde Drexler was at his peak. Technically he\u2019d have a better statistical season the year following, but the team synergy was out of this world. It was the familiar starting five of Drexler, Porter, Kersey, Buck, and Duck, plus Cliff Robinson and Danny Ainge coming off the bench to fill multiple positions. It\u2019s pretty much the archetype of how a team should be put together. I also saw more games in person that year than any I had experienced before, so I felt a personal connection to that team.<\/p>\n
As long-time fans will know, the season ended in heartache in the Western Conference Finals against They Who Shall Not Be Named, but that doesn\u2019t really dim the memory for me. It was a sad ending precisely because the lead-up was so glorious. I actually ended up liking the \u201890-\u201991 season better than the Finals years immediately prior and following. It was one of the great \u201cWhat If?\u201d moments in franchise history.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s mine. What\u2019s yours? Share in the comments section below and enjoy reading one another\u2019s favorite memories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers were established in 1970. Since that inaugural season, in which they earned a 29-53…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,63976,3967,1617],"class_list":["post-837696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117288681071049179","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837696","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=837696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}