MASCOT NIGHT SATURDAY, MARCH 23 • ISSUE 13.3
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RIP CITY IT’S BLAZE’S BIRTHDAY BASH! Blaze the Trail Cat joined the Trail Blazers family back in 2002 and has been the team’s biggest fan ever since. Born in the towering pines of the Oregon Cascades, Blaze was always a little different from the other cubs with unique two-toned silver fur, ears and a tail that looks like blazing flames, and a heart-shaped nose. He loved his life in the mountains and eventually found himself on the steps of the Oregon Humane Society. The staff there had never seen anything like him, but he was so playful, energetic and friendly they knew they needed to find a good home for him. The Trail Blazers heard about this frisky feline and knew right away that they wanted to adopt him and make him the team’s first ever mascot. Blaze felt at home right away with the Trail Blazers and quickly became a basketball fan and the team’s biggest supporter. Blaze has become a staple at every Trail Blazers home game cheering on the team, visiting with fans dancing in the stands, and more. Stop by entry A-18 pregame to get your photo taken with Blaze!
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A2 • Schonely’s 10 Barrel Taproom Appetizers, Entrees, Sandwiches, Desserts, Spirits and a Variety of Beer
A2, A14 • Crafter’s Burgers, Chicken Sandwich, Chicken Strips & Fries
A3, A9, A23 • Heritage Distilling A4 • Bap & Noodle A4, A9, A19, A22 • Red Hot & Rollin´
KUNI LEXUS CLUB LEVEL
A1 • Dippin’ Dots
B1 • Pendleton Whisky Lounge Spirits & a Variety of Beer
B3 • Ruby Jewel Custom Ice Cream Sandwiches
B3 • Hotstone Brick style Pizza and Pasta
B9 • Cha Cha Cha Nachos, Burritos, Tacos & Quesadilla
B11 • Hop Valley Bar
Zenner’s Hot Dogs, Nachos, Candy, Ice Cream
Variety of Craft Beers
A5, A18 • Killer Burger
B13 • Junction 5 Grill
Specialty Burgers
Burgers, Brews and Flatbreads
A8 • Crispin A9 • Plum Tasty
B19 • The Speck Variety of Speck Sandwiches and Sides
Fresh, Local, and Organic Bowls, Salads, Wraps, Snacks & Beverages
B20 • Whole Sum
A10 • Daddy D’s Southern BBQ
Thai, Ramen and Scallion Pancakes
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A11 • Hook/Line Fish & Chips and Poke Bowls
A12 • Tamale Boy A12 • Local Cork Presented by Adelsheim Premium Wine, with select beers
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C8 • Widmer Brothers Brewery C13 • Crafters Yeti's
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Northwest Kid’s Fare
Chicken, Beef, and Veggie Tacos
A19 • Ruby Jewel
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Custom Ice Cream Sandwiches
Pretzel wrapped sausage, Pretzels, popcorn, beverages
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C18 • Coor’s Rocky Top Tavern
Nachos, Burritos, Tacos and Quesadillas
Variety of Domestic and Craft Beers
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Specialty Ice Cream
Zenner’s Hot Dogs, Nachos, Candy, Ice Cream
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C32 • The Pines crafted by Jack Daniels Variety of Craft Beer & Spirits
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TRAIL BLAZERS
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TRAIL BLAZERS GAME PROGRAM • GAME NIGHT PREVIEW
DETROIT
PISTONS EASTERN CONFERENCE, CENTRAL DIVISION
TRAIL CAT
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Was selected first overall by the Trail Blazers in the 2002 NBA draft Born in the towering pines of the Oregon Cascades Loves to cheer, dance, dunk and throw t-shirts
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KEY SB: Shirts Blasted CP: Crowds Pumped PT: Pictures Taken SD%: Slam Dunk Percentage HC%: Half Court Percentage HF%: High-Five Percentage
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14.2 1.0 78.4 95.2 38.7 100
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HOOPER Was selected second overall by the Detriot Pistons in the 1996 NBA draft Born in Lucky, Kentucky and was originally trained to be a racehorse Was too talented to be a racehorse, so mastered his craft and honed his skills to earn his spot as the Pistons’ official horse
STATS
SEASON • CAREER THROUGH MAR 20
16.4 1.0 72.3 94.8 35.1 99.7
SB
CP
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SD%
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15.3 1.0 73.0 93.3 34.9 99.4
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PORTLAND
TRAIL BLAZERS WESTERN CONFERENCE NORTHWEST DIVISION
NO. NAME POS 00 Enes KANTER C 0 Damian LILLARD G 1 Evan TURNER G/F 3 CJ MCCOLLUM G 4 Maurice HARKLESS F 5 Rodney HOOD G 8 Al-Farouq AMINU F 9 Gary TRENT JR. G 10 Jake LAYMAN F 11 Meyers LEONARD F/C 17 Skal LABISSIÈRE F 24 Anfernee SIMONS G 27 Jusuf NURKIĆ C 31 Seth CURRY G 33 Zach COLLINS F/C
HT 6-11 6-3 6-7 6-3 6-9 6-8 6-9 6-6 6-9 7-1 6-11 6-4 7-0 6-2 7-0
WT 250 195 220 190 220 206 220 205 215 255 235 185 275 185 235
DOB 05/20/1992 07/15/1990 10/27/1988 09/19/1991 05/11/1993 10/20/1992 09/21/1990 01/18/1999 03/07/1994 02/27/1992 03/18/1996 06/08/1999 08/23/1994 08/23/1990 11/19/1997
PRIOR TO NBA / COUNTRY Fenerbahce Ulker/Turkey Weber State/USA Ohio State/USA Lehigh/USA St. John’s (NY)/USA Duke/USA Wake Forest/USA Duke/USA Maryland/USA Illinois/USA Kentucky/Haiti Edgewater HS/USA Cedevita Zagreb/Bosnia Duke/USA Gonzaga/USA
YRS 7 6 8 5 6 4 8 R 2 6 2 R 4 4 1
Head Coach: Terry Stotts (Oklahoma) Assistant Coaches: David Vanterpool (St. Bonaventure), Nate Tibbetts (South Dakota), Dale Osbourne (South Alabama), John McCullough (Oklahoma), Jim Moran (William & Mary) Director of Player Health and Performance: Jesse Elis Head Atheletic Trainer: Geoff Clark Sports Performance Specialists: Todd Forcier, Ben Kenyon Owner: Paul G. Allen Trust President & CEO: Chris McGowan President of Basketball Operations: Neil Olshey Assistant General Managers: Bill Branch, Steve Rosenberry 24
DETROIT
PISTONS EASTERN CONFERENCE CENTRAL DIVISION
NO. NAME POS 0 Andre DRUMMOND C 1 Reggie JACKSON G 5 Luke KENNARD G 6 Bruce BROWN G 7 Thon MAKER F 9 Langston GALLOWAY G 12 Isaiah WHITEHEAD* G 13 Khyri THOMAS G 14 Ish SMITH G 19 Svi MYKHAILIUK G 20 Wayne ELLINGTON G 22 Glenn ROBINSON III F 23 Blake GRIFFIN F 24 Kalin LUCAS* G 27 Zaza PACHULIA C 30 Jon LEUER F/C 81 Jose CALDERON G
HT 6-11 6-3 6-5 6-5 7-1 6-2 6-4 6-3 6-0 6-8 6-5 6-6 6-10 6-1 6-11 6-10 6-3
WT 279 208 206 202 221 200 213 210 175 205 200 222 251 195 270 228 200
DOB 08/10/1993 04/16/1990 06/24/1996 08/15/1996 02/25/1997 12/09/1991 03/08/1995 05/08/1996 07/05/1988 06/10/1997 11/29/1987 01/08/1994 03/16/1989 05/24/1989 02/10/1984 05/14/1989 09/28/1981
PRIOR TO NBA / COUNTRY Connecticut/USA Boston College/USA Duke/USA Miami/USA Sudan/Sudan St Joseph’s/USA Seton Hall/USA Creighton/USA Wake Forest/USA Kansas/Ukraine North Carolina/USA Michigan/USA Oklahoma/USA Michigan State/USA Ulkerspor/Georgia Wisconsin/USA Tau Ceramica/Spain
YRS 6 7 1 R 2 4 2 R 8 R 9 4 8 1 15 7 13
*NBA TWO-WAY CONTRACT
Head Coach: Dwane Casey (Kentucky) Assistant Coaches: Sidney Lowe (North Carolina State), Sean Sweeney (St. Thomas), Tim Grgurich (Pittsburgh), Micah Nori (Indiana) Athletic Trainer: Jim Scholler (Michigan)
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SEASON STATS THROUGH MAR 20
PORTLAND (44-27) LILLARD MCCOLLUM NURKIĆ KANTER* AMINU HOOD* LAYMAN HARKLESS CURRY TURNER COLLINS LEONARD SIMONS TRENT JR. LABISSIERE*
G MIN PTS REB AST
71 114.1 47.7 22.8 70 35.4 26.3 4.5 6.7 68 34.1 21.3 4.0 2.9 70 27.3 15.4 10.4 3.2 13 18.4 10.3 6.9 1.5 71 28.6 9.2 7.5 1.3 17 22.4 8.8 1.5 0.8 60 18.7 7.6 3.3 0.7 50 22.8 7.2 4.2 1.1 65 17.6 6.9 1.5 0.9 63 22.5 6.8 4.5 3.7 66 17.6 6.3 4.2 0.9 55 14.2 5.8 3.7 1.2 14 5.2 1.6 0.5 0.3 11 4.4 1.5 0.5 0.1 5 2.2 0.0 0.2 0.0
*SINCE JOINING PORTLAND
G MIN PTS REB AST
DETROIT (36-34)
70 107.4 45.3 22.7 67 35.3 24.7 7.6 5.4 67 33.1 17.4 15.4 1.3 70 28.3 15.4 2.6 4.3 16 25.8 10.6 2.0 1.4 52 22.4 9.4 2.9 1.8 44 22.3 8.6 2.5 3.5 68 21.5 8.4 2.1 1.1 17 17.4 5.0 3.5 1.1 62 19.7 4.5 2.6 1.2 36 10.5 4.2 2.6 0.4 41 13.0 4.2 1.4 0.4 57 13.6 4.2 4.3 1.4 23 8.2 2.7 0.9 0.3 48 13.1 2.4 1.3 2.4 1 6.0 2.0 3.0 1.0 3 6.7 2.0 0.7 1.3 1 4.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
GRIFFIN DRUMMOND JACKSON ELLINGTON* KENNARD SMITH GALLOWAY MAKER* BROWN LEUER ROBINSON III PACHULIA THOMAS CALDERON LUCAS MYKHAILIUK* LOFTON *SINCE JOINING DETROIT
UPCOMING HOME GAMES
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GET AN INSIDE LOOK OF WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE CAMERA FOR EVERY TRAIL BLAZERS TELEVISION BROADCAST WITH DIRECTOR OF BROADCASTING JEFF CURTIN AND TELEVISION PRODUCER DAN HYATT How did you get into Broadcasting?
What do you do to prepare for a gameday?
JEFF CURTIN: I started as an engineering major at Oregon State. During my freshman year stumbled across the OSU campus TV station KBVR-TV. I walked around the facility, met a few students working in the TV studio and then changed my major the next term, I was hooked. After graduating in Broadcast Media at OSU (1991), I secured the summer internship with Blazers Broadcasting and I have been here ever since!
JC: Gamedays are very busy and make for a long work day. The night before I try and familiarize myself with the next opponent. I read the game notes, online preview articles and watch their last game’s broadcast on NBA league pass. This helps me learn the opponents story lines, injury reports and who’s been playing well for them lately.
DAN HYATT: I got my degree in television production and worked for news stations to start my career. I started doing sports in the early 90’s, and instantly knew that was what I wanted to do. I started as a replay operator doing college events, then was able to get into doing some Trail Blazers games in 1992. My first job as director was at Channel 12. Jeff Curtin gave me the opportunity to produce the pregame show for the Blazers in 2013, and I did that for a few years before getting the full-time job as game Producer. Best job I’ve ever had!
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DH: The producer is responsible for all content and story lines during a broadcast, so I spend a lot of time watching NBA games, and researching stats and stories for the Blazers and our opponent for each game. We have a ton of partnership inventory that we run in our shows, so I spend a couple of hours making sure we integrate those into our broadcast at the right time. On gameday, we do a broadcast production conference call seven hours prior to air time, where digital, radio, pregame and the game broadcast crew all get on the phone and talk about our storylines for the night and run through our shows. This helps us to make sure we are aligning our narratives across all our platforms.
What’s something you do daily that the fans likely don’t know about?
favorite is Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It has that “Hoosiers” mystique to it. And the concourse is really cool.
JC: It takes around 35 broadcast staff to produce each pregame and game telecast. They arrive at Moda Center at 1pm and leave around 11pm each home game.
What is your favorite part of working with the Blazers?
DH: Most people are shocked to learn is that there is a minimum of four crews working on four different shows at every home game. We have something like 75 technical staff working between the home show, the visit show, the pregame show, and the In-house show (what you see on the big screen in the arena at Moda). The home and visit broadcasts each have their own television trucks that are parked in the loading dock—this is also the case when we go to other arenas. Describe the culture / dynamic in the Broadcast Truck
JC: I love the excitement of working for a sports team. The highs and lows of each game are fun, and each night it’s a new story and opportunity. But the best part is my coworkers, everyone is very passionate in every part of their job, and they motivate me each day to keep pushing forward and make it better. DH: It has to be the people. We spend more time together during the six months of the season than we do with our families. I also love the travel. The job can be very exhausting, and the hours really long, but we are treated so well on road trips that it makes it manageable.
JC: I try and create a team collaboration atmosphere with the broadcast crew. Great ideas can come from anyone and you never know who might come up with a great story, image or concept for the broadcast. The live coverage of the game gets crazy during the telecast. The game moves very fast and changes within seconds. The art of being able to adapt to those situations and trust your technical crew is crucial. The pace is so fast that being able to communicate what you need in a very short amount of time is always a challenge. We do have a fantastic group of technicians that work on each broadcast, and many are my good friends and have been working on the crew longer than myself. DH: We have a pretty amazing group of people that work with us every game. Every person on our crew is very good at their jobs. Couple that with the great relationships that we all have the broadcast team (Kevin, Lamar and Brooke) and it shows on the air. We aren’t afraid to laugh at ourselves, keep it light, and have fun. I truly believe we have the best staff and crew in the NBA, and that includes all of the production and technical people that we bring in every game. What’s your favorite arena? (besides Moda Center, of course.) JC: I like going to Madison Square Garden in New York and the Pacers Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indiana, both have great basketball history. This is my 20th season traveling with the team. Although it’s tough being away from my family during the season, it much easier when you really enjoy the team and friends you travel with each road game. DH: Everyone always says Madison Square Garden. It’s a very historic building and always cool to be there, except it’s really old, and very hard to get to the floor from our truck. My
What advice would you give someone trying to enter the Broadcast industry? JC: My advice would be to get involved in your interested area: news, sports, marketing. Find a job shadow with someone in the industry, or a volunteer position on a production. Meeting new people can potentially lead to opportunities for future employment. Internships are always a great way to get that “foot in the door”. Many of my former interns now work on our nightly broadcast team. This industry can take you in many different areas, I found that trying new things will open your eyes to your real passion. DH: I tell students all the time—they need to learn as many skills in as many different positions as possible. Never say no to an opportunity, no matter how menial it may seem. Hands on experience is the only way you can learn the business and figure out what you love to do the most. There are so many paths you can take to getting into television and video production, but you have to get experience in order to know what you want to pursue.
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FROM THE BROADCASTERS PERSPECTIVE WITH TELEVISION ANALYST LAMAR HURD, TELEVISION PLAY-BY-PLAY KEVIN CALABRO AND SIDELINE REPORTER BROOKE OLZENDAM What’s something about the broadcast process that fans likely don’t know about? LAMAR HURD: The day prior to each game, we as a broadcast team discuss what we most think we should feature in our pregame and show open. Some other teams’ broadcasts just use their producer’s suggestion; some just use their announcers’ suggestions; we at Trail Blazers Broadcasting always come to a collective agreement in regards to the content we display. KEVIN CALABRO: I think what fans don’t realize is that sitting at court level doesn’t guarantee we’ll see every play, because coaches and players will often stand in front of us. That’s why we have two monitors in front of us but they’re one foot by one foot, not a 52-incher like some fans at home! BROOKE OLZENDAM: Fans might not realize all the preparation that goes into a broadcast. Our producer Dan, and Kevin and Lamar and I communicate the day before a game about what we want to focus on in pregame, as well as in-game. I am also texting Dan throughout the day about things I would like to talk about in game. What’s it like working with Dan and Jeff? LH: It is as simple as can possibly be imagined. Both of them are great about setting expectations, and then giving us the freedom from there to do our job. Communication has to be great between the truck and the talent on the floor, and we all feel that we have a seamless process in everything we do. The two of them are great about following the conversation from us throughout the game, and then providing supporting camera angles, graphics, etc. based on what we’re saying. We’re blessed to have them as our director and producer!
upcoming features and elements we want to get aired. I’m kind of the on-air traffic controller. Dan gives me options as I do play by play and I decide on the fly. I leave space open so Lamar can get in and make his points and observations and stories. BO: Working with Dan and Jeff is THE BEST. They are organized and professional, but calm and so easy to work with. They value my opinion and support me every day. Most important, we have fun working together! What’s the most difficult part of the broadcast for you? LH: A technical aspect of the broadcast that’s challenging is when Dan is communicating with me in my ear while Kevin is also communicating with me over the air – I have to be able to hear them simultaneously and respond to both of them in a timely manner. Sometimes I’m not able to hear one of them, and I have to make the best possible guess as to what I think they may have said. Another challenging part of broadcasts takes place whenever the Trail Blazers are losing by a large margin. We as the announcers feel bad for the players and wish they weren’t getting blown out, and in addition to that, we feel bad for the fans that they have to witness it. But, it’s a part of the game – and the Trail Blazers have been on the positive side of many of those blowouts. It’s probably the most difficult part of the broadcasts because sometimes you have to be creative in conversation, while also staying true to whatever may be happening in the game. BO: The most difficult part is trying not to talk Dan and Jeff’s ears off during the game. I forget they are doing incredibly important work in the truck, and I just want to talk about every play. t
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Check out the new Made by Her line at Rip City Clothing Co! We’ve partnered with women-owned businesses on unique collaborations – locally designed for Rip City. This month’s featured item is a bag by Torrain. Supplies are limited, so be sure to stop by Rip City Clothing Co. tonight or shop Tuesday-Saturday from 11am-4pm!
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