barfo

18 of 21 will be on the road because it will take quite a bit of time to finish moving the Rose Garden up to Seattle.

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andalusian

18 out of 21 will be on the road because they will play the playoffs first - and the seeding is based on last year's finish order.

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hasoos

Well if 18 of 21 are on the road, I can guarantee the NBA is trying to break the Blazers early so they don't have a chance. By the end of those 21 games, the Blazers playoff fate will pretty much be determined.

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andalusian

18 out of 21 will be on the road because someone at the league office took the name Rose Garden literally and booked it for the Chicago Bulls.

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Reep

I doubt this is true, because that would be the worst imbalance in the history of the NBA, but I think it would be good news. Get those road games out of the way while Greg and the rest of the Rose Garden Rookies are getting up to speed. After that, you make up for it with a bunch of home games when the team is running well and make a great push into the playoffs.

I would feel bad for the locals, but I'm dislocated and watching on League Pass anyway.

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Nate4Prez

18 out of 21 will be on the road cause the Rose Garden roof is under construction so they will be able to fit Greg Oden into the building. The Three home games will be open air.

SodaPopinski

Ridiculous rumor.

First of all, this would be unprecedented.

Second, the NBA would have to be dumber than a box of hammers to conduct business this way. Gee - let's completely take away a team's major revenue stream for the first two months of the season, while at the same time making our in-person entertainment product totally irrelevant in one of our markets in November and December.

The only way this possibly happens is if the Rose Garden somehow has some major event or renovation taking place during that time, which is highly unlikely.

-Pop

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Dan

unless they wanted to showcase the city on TV during the better parts of the year.

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Kmurph

Look on the bright side...It could mean POR has a bunch of home games down the stretch....

18 of 21 seems pretty ridiculous though....

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nikolokolus

Sweet, this means the "story" of the Blazers season will go something like this:

Part 1 (October-November): "Boy Oden sure is struggling, he's clearly not 100% right now. I wonder if they rushed him back?"
Part 2 (December-January): "Well that awful 10 game losing streak seems to be in the rear view mirror now, the Blazers have rattled off a modest 3 game winning streak at home, but you sure have to wonder if Greg is ever going to be 100%."
Part 3: (February-March): "Wow, the last couple of months really showed us something about this young Blazers team, they seem to have finally hit their stride, punctuated by that 9 game winning streak. It sure looks like Oden has finally found his groove and might be close to 100%"
Part 4 (April): "Well the Blazers sure came out of nowhere to finish the season at 47 and 35, too bad they did so poorly to start off the season cause it looks like they're going to just miss that 8th and final spot by one game to the surprise team of the Western Conference, the Minnesota Timberwolves. The Blazers sure could have used a fully healthy Oden earlier on."

ehizzy3

lol minnesota? lol

PapaG

This can't possibly be true.

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nikolokolus

Well, one ridiculous rumor/speculation deserves another.

sabas4mvp

I don't see the blazers allowing this. Season ticket holders would be very angry due to that fact that they spent money on a product they can't see at all! Especially with Oden and Rudy coming in.

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