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 (NBA) 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 Trail Blazers are 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.
Portland Trail Blazers Team Salary
| Player | Age | Avg. Salary |
| Damian Lillard | 29 | 29,000,000 |
| C.J. McCollum | 28 | 26,658,362 |
| Hassan Whiteside | 30 | 24,604,885 |
| Kent Bazemore | 30 | 17,500,000 |
| Jusuf Nurkic | 25 | 12,000,000 |
| Zach Collins | 22 | 4,083,154 |
| Rodney Hood | 27 | 5,860,950 |
| Skal Labissiere | 23 | 1,596,312 |
| Anfernee Simons | 20 | 2,079,040 |
| Nassir Little | 19 | 2,158,080 |
| Gary Trent Jr. | 20 | 1,306,392 |
| Mario Hezonja | 24 | 1,830,141 |
| Anthony Tolliver | 34 | 2,564,753 |
| Carmelo Anthony | 35 | 2,159,029 |
| Jaylen Hoard | 20 | – |
| Moses Brown | 20 | – |
On June 28, 2012, the Blazers selected Weber State guard Damian Lillard and University of Illinois center Meyers Leonard with the 6th and 11th picks overall, respectively. They also selected University of Memphis guard Will Barton with the 40th pick overall, and traded the rights of the 41st overall pick, University of Kansas guard Tyshawn Taylor, to the Brooklyn Nets for cash considerations.
Going into the 2013 NBA draft, the Trail Blazers held four picks: the 10th pick in the first round and three second-round picks. The Blazers selected guard CJ McCollum out of Lehigh University with their 10th pick and also selected center Jeff Withey from Kansas, power forward Grant Jerrett from Arizona, and Montenegrin big man Marko Todorović. In addition, Cal guard Allen Crabbe was acquired from the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for two second-round picks, in the 2015 and 2016 drafts.
During the 2014 off-season, Olshey signed center Chris Kaman and two-time former Blazers’ guard Steve Blake to bolster the bench. Expectations by sportswriters and analysts were high for the Trail Blazers going into the 2015 NBA season given their surprise success in 2013–14.
In the 2015 NBA draft, the Blazers selected Arizona forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and subsequently traded him to the Brooklyn Nets along with Steve Blake for center Mason Plumlee and the 42nd pick, Pat Connaughton.
In the 2018–19 season, the Blazers finished the regular season as the third seed in the Western Conference for the second consecutive season. In the first round of the playoffs, the Trail Blazers defeated the Oklahoma City Thunder in five games, making it their first series win since the 2016 playoffs.