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Jon Chepkevich: Oregon’s TJ Bamba will join the Brooklyn Nets for NBA Summer League, I’m told. The 6’5” wing averaged 10.5 PTS, 3.4 REB, 3.0 AST, 1.8 STL for the Ducks this season en route to All-B1G Defensive Team honors.
Senate Republican Leader Daniel Bonham (R-District 26) clearly loves the Portland Trail Blazers, but he wasn’t too thrilled with the team’s recent trade ahead of Wednesday night’s NBA draft. The Oregon Senate unanimously approved HCR 40, a resolution recognizing the importance of the Portland Trail Blazers to the state, on Tuesday.
“Portland, Oregon and the NBA have proven a winning combination since 1970 – with the city and our entire state teaming up to be a vital part of the NBA’s DNA for the last 55 years,” Wyden wrote to Silver. “With Trail Blazers ownership announcing its formal sale process of the team this week, I write as Oregon’s senior senator proud to represent my fellow Trail Blazers fans to say there is no place in America with a deeper base of hoops support than in Portland and throughout Oregon.”
The Trail Blazers held a predraft workout on Tuesday that included Devon Pryor (Oregon), Rueben Chinyelu (Florida), Ben Henshall (Perth Wildcats), Dink Pate (Mexico City Capitanes), John Blackwell (Wisconsin) and Lachlan Olbrich (Illawarra Hawks), Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian tweets. Pate (No. 55) and Henshall (64) are the highest-rated prospects among that group, according to ESPN’s Best Available list.
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Was this his greatest game ever? “Ask Dillon Brooks,” Hield said, smiling. This, clearly, wasn’t the first time Brooks has been on the receiving end of a Hield explosion. Hield was hearkening back nine years to March 2016, when he put up 37 for the Oklahoma Sooners in the Elite Eight, knocking off Oregon, featuring Brooks, to earn a spot in the Final Four. “I told him,” Hield said, clasping on his several diamond link chains, this one with a diamond-encrusted No. 7 medallion, “‘I sent you home. I’ma send you home again.'”
On May 30, 2024, Drew Gordon died in a two-vehicle injury crash in Clackamas County, Oregon, at the age of 33. He was survived by Angela, their sons Zayne (5) and Brody (2), and his eldest Jayden (12). “When that first happened, I was there with [Aaron],” Nuggets teammate Michael Porter Jr. told Andscape. “It was me and him and KCP [ex-Nuggets teammate Kentavious Caldwell-Pope] ended up pulling up. We sat there, digested it, talked. And we were there for him. He’s held it down since the day it happened. That was his big brother.”
Oregon could be losing its starting center for a second straight offseason. Nate Bittle declared for the NBA draft on Monday, but said he will maintain his college eligibility and return to Oregon if he chooses to return to college for his final season.
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The concerning videos that former NBA player Kyle Singler has been posting to social media this month have caught the attention of local authorities, TMZ Sports has learned. A spokesperson for the Medford Police Department in Oregon tells us ... cops "are aware" of the vids Singler's been putting up on his Instagram page this past week -- though the rep did not release any further information.
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Basketball has taken Dillon Brooks a long way from his Mississauga home — from college in Oregon to his professional debut in Memphis, to this year's Paris Olympics and the start of a new NBA season in Houston. But he hasn't forgotten the Toronto program that gave him his start. This season, Brooks has become the major sponsor of the Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary School (FHC) senior boys' basketball program — the same program he helped lead to three undefeated seasons from 2010 to 2013, according to a Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) news release.
The Portland Trail Blazers are set to broadcast games over the air on local networks and other Sinclair Broadcasting stations in Oregon and Washington next season. The team will also have a direct-to-consumer streaming option called BlazerVision for the upcoming year.
The WNBA has granted Portland, Oregon an expansion team. The new Portland franchise will join the league as the 15th team and is set to begin play in 2026. The expansion team will be owned by RAJ sports, which is run by Lisa Bhathal Merage and Alex Bhathal. RAJ sports also owns the Portland Thorns of the NWSL.
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