Quick reminder for NBA fans not acclimated to the Portland market (most of you will not be)

Portland’s home writers are, for the most part, just giant pimples. Big, ruddy, shiny whiteheads always angry and ready to burst. It’s a long, long line of Oregonian endorsed pusbags, (Dwight Jaynes - Jason Quick - John Canzano - this smirking cock ‘n’ balls) and Oram is simply the latest in that line (which is a downward trending line, not surprisingly).

If you can avoid linking him, it would be much obliged.

Between this and the NBA.com power rankings, I am appreciating and nodding along to the narrative being established early and clearly that the biggest problem with the Portland Trail Blazers is that Chauncey Billups is a fucking dumbass

Less games = each game is more important. The playoffs are also way more important.

It’s really as simple as this.