The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. The Trail Blazers compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. The team played its home games in the Memorial Coliseum before moving to Moda Center in 1995. The franchise entered the league as an expansion team in 1970, and has enjoyed a strong following: from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games, the longest such streak in American major professional sports at the time, and only since surpassed by the Boston Red Sox. The Trail Blazers have been the only NBA team based in the bi-national Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
The team has advanced to the NBA Finals three times, winning the NBA championship once in 1977. Their other NBA Finals appearances were in 1990 and 1992.
Northwest Division
Location:
Portland
Arena/Stadium:
Moda Center
Owners:
Paul Allen
Head Coach:
Terry Stotts
Mascot:
Blaze the Trail Cat
Championship year:
1977
Al-Farouq Aminu
Power forward and Small forward
C. J. McCollum
Point guard and Shooting guard
C. J. Wilcox
Shooting guard
Caleb Swanigan
Power forward and Center
Damian Lillard
Point guard
Ed Davis
Power forward and Center
Evan Turner
Shooting guard and Small forward
Georgios Papagiannis
Center
Jake Layman
Power forward
Maurice Harkless
Small forward
Meyers Leonard
Power forward and Center
Pat Connaughton
Shooting guard and Small forward
Shabazz Napier
Point guard
Wade Baldwin IV
Point guard
Zach Collins
Power forward and Center