Trail Blazers Have Best Chance for No. 1
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While the odds favor the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday night, history hasn&#039;t favored the team with best chance of getting the No. 1 pick &amp;#151; at least until recently.
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With the race for the No. 2 slot in the B.C.S. standing intensifying between Oklahoma and Auburn, U.S.C. has solidified its status as the nation's top team.
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The two best success stories of 2007-08 were in Boston last night. The Celtics, well, were expected to be good, maybe not this good, but still pretty good. The Trail Blazers? After Greg Oden went down for the season, a lot of people figured they'd make marginal gains, if any, over last season (when they went 32-50) and would be ...
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Brandon Roy and Jarrett Jack each scored 17 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers extended their winning streak to 11 games with a victory over the Seattle SuperSonics.
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Basketball Kevin Durant worked out with the Portland Trail Blazers yesterday, two days after Greg Oden , as both players show their talents to the team with the top draft pick. Durant, a 6-foot-9-inch forward out of Texas, said: "I feel good here. Like I belong here." Said Blazers GM Kevin Pritchard : "That was as impressive a workout as ...
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Soon after LeBron James and Kobe Bryant finished up, the surprising Portland Trail Blazers went to work on prolonging their winning streak.
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Tennessee is no longer chasing Connecticut. The Lady Vols are back on top. Pat Summitt's team took the No. 1 spot in The Associated Press' preseason women's basketball poll Monday, the 11th time it has started the season atop the rankings &#151; and first since 1998.
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PORTLAND, Ore., (Sports Network) - The Portland Trail  Blazers have placed forwards Darius Miles and Shareef  Abdur-Rahim on the injured list.
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Greg Oden, the top pick in this yearâs N.B.A. draft, will likely miss his first season with the Portland Trail Blazers after surgery on his right knee today.
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Former champion Joe Durant had a pair of eagles on his way to a 7-under 65 and a share of the first-round lead Wednesday in the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
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Wells scored 25 points and the Memphis Grizzlies won on the road for the first time this season by beating the Portland Trail Blazers, 101-to-82.
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Brand-new Trail Blazers center Greg Oden quickly got a feel for life in Portland &#151; it rained. The 7-foot center out of Ohio State, wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with his last name, was introduced Friday to Blazers fans at a lunchtime rally, some 16 hours after the team took him with the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft.
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For almost three decades, the people of Portland, Ore., fervently embraced their only professional sports franchise, the NBA's Trail Blazers. From 1976-95, every home game was sold out.
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Now comes the hard part for the people of Portland: patience. You can't blame them for hoisting a microbrew or two in between bites of their Dungeness crab after the Trail Blazers came out of nowhere last Tuesday night to win the NBA lottery. General manager Kevin Pritchard is playing it coy right now, but if he passes on Greg ...
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If May 22 was a night to rejoice in the Pacific Northwest, then June 28 represented a chance for another round of celebrations. Portland and Seattle, the consensus winners of the 2007 lottery, also appeared to be big-time winners when the dust settled from the NBA draft.
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Nate McMillan looks at the standings of the new Northwest Division and sees something a little odd &#151; the SuperSonics are in first place.
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Greg Oden, the No. 1 overall selection in last June&#39;s National Basketball Association draft, will have exploratory surgery after experiencing knee pain, the Portland Trail Blazers said Monday.