Stepping Razor

I was born in '78, so I just missed the championship, and I never had season tickets or anything, but through sheer good luck I managed to be in the house for a couple of the best moments of both the Clyde- and Sheed-era teams.

1. 1990 Playoffs, Second Round vs. Spurs, Game 7. I was in 6th grade, and came back from my week at Multnomah County Outdoor School to discover that some family friends had given tickets so my mom and I were going to the game! During warmups Duck got a standing O when he ran out the tunnel suited up and ready to play despite wearing a huge cast on his recently broken hand. All looked hopeless in the 4th, down 7 with under two minutes to play, before a magnificent comeback tied it up at the end and we pulled away in OT.

2. 2003 Playoffs, First Round vs. Mavs, Game 6. I consider this to be the last hurrah of the very good but deeply flawed Sheed/Damon/Pip/Sabas team. Somehow I knew someone who knew someone who knew Paul Allen's mom, and I therefore ended up with free tix in the second row, right behind Bill Walton at the TV table. With a young Z-Bo looking unstoppable alongside our skilled vets, we absolutely killed the Mavs, seemingly setting the table for an impossible comeback from 3-0 down in the series. But Pip missed an open 3 in the last minute of Game 7 back in Dallas, we just fell short, Sabas and Pip retired, Bonzi and Sheed and Damon strayed farther off the reservation, Mo Cheeks became the face of the franchise... and the wheels pretty much fell off the Blazers' wagon after that. That game was the last gasp of the team that came so brutally close to winning it all in 2000.

Looking forward to more games like that in the Rose Garden in the future.

Stepping Razor

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It's Oden Time

MAS RipCity

- drexler/porter/kersey/cliffy/duck/adleman/buck years....... Both title runs in 91 and 92, I missed out on the 90 team as I didn't know the NBA prolly exisited as I was 4.. . Drexler's monsterous dunk on Billy Cartwright in Game 2 of the 92 Finals...Game 2 of the 92 Finals..Drex fouls out, but we pull away in OT.

99 season- Ab unch of nobody's going to the WCF was awesome. The battles with Utah and the heart pounding!

00 Season..started the hype in the offseason with the aqcquisistion of Pip and we had it but.....Game 2 of the WCF...great statement W

05 season ending game vs the lakers....nothing to play for,but we came out and played with passion. I still remember Bassy behind the back to Ha for the FLUSH :tear

meeting Drexler at JC Penny at the Albany Mall...shaking my hand and saying "Hey big guy" ...meetin Kersey at the Salem mall..the bust a bucket cassette tapes, can i get a headband?, and the fanfare the community had with the team. Man I miss those days.

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PDX Fan Since '90

Storyteller

December 1985 - while celebrating my 20th birthday with friends, watching the Blazers be the only team to beat the Celtics in Boston that season.

Fall 1982 - My first live Blazer game. They lost to the Clippers...

Game 2, 1990 Finals - although the Blazers would lose the series, beating the Pistons in Detroit was sweet.

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1. 1992 NBA Finals Game 2 - Clyde fouls out, Blazers take it to overtime and beat MJ and the Bulls to take it to 1-1 in the series, and three games in Portland.

2. Brian Grant vs. Karl Malone - The epic battles between those two, and the Rasta Monsta holding his own against an NBA MVP. Probably Grant's best years in his career.

3. Trading for Scottie Pippen - One of, if not, Bob Whitsitt's best trades. A hall of famer, great player coming to Portland? Still don't believe it.

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