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NBA Retrospective: Bill Walton

Bill Walton

The man behind RIP-CITY and BLAZERMANIA

Bill Walton lead the Portland Trailblazers to the 1977 NBA Championships over Julius "Dr.J" Erving's Philadelphia 76ers. Bill Walton also played for the Boston Celtics 1986 Championship Team.

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Portland Trailblazers guard Rudy Fernandez on whom the Blazers have placed on the trading block had been receiving offers from three Eastern Conference teams: Boston, New York and Chicago.

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The Portland Trailblazers Head Coach Nate McMillan had announced his coaching staff for training camp and for the NBA 2010-2011 Season.

Assistant coach Bernie Bickerstaff

Assistant Coach Buck Williams

Assistant Coach Bob Ociepka

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Portland Trailblazers guard Rudy Fernandez on whom the Blazers have placed on the trading block had been receiving offers from three Eastern Conference teams: Boston, New York and Chicago.

do you think that the Portland can trade away Rudy Fernandez before the start of training camp?? because it will surely affect the performance of Fernandez in the training camp

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do you think that the Portland can trade away Rudy Fernandez before the start of training camp?? because it will surely affect the performance of Fernandez in the training camp

That has been the priority of the Portland Trailblazers for the past week as Rudy Fernandez's agent had been pushing for a trade since last season and that coincides with the preference of Fernandez as well. As of the moment, the Blazers are still trying to get the best deal for Fernandez. It is reported that the Phoenix Suns have also joined the fray.

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Portland Trailblazers center Greg Oden and guard Brandon Roy have been working hard on the Strength and Conditioning Facility of the Blazers camp. Both are in terrific shape and are ready for training camp.

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Blazers sign rookie Armon Johnson

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Armon Johnson and Luke Babbit as well as Sophomores Jeff Pendegraph and Dante Cunningham makes the Trailblazers more younger but never compromising the dynamism of their team. Good additions.

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Veteran point guard Andre Miller said he has sights set on playing for 4 more years in the league.

Andre Miller is one of those players that is always in the perfect shape despite their age.

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Bill Walton

The man behind RIP-CITY and BLAZERMANIA

Bill Walton lead the Portland Trailblazers to the 1977 NBA Championships over Julius "Dr.J" Erving's Philadelphia 76ers. Bill Walton also played for the Boston Celtics 1986 Championship Team.

Bill Walton, the big hippie! Lol.

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Portland Trailblazers fans believe that the franchise is cursed because of these injuries to players from Bill Walton extending to Greg Oden and the rest of the team as the Portland TrailBlazers franchise received its name on Friday the 13th when the city if Portland was naming their Basketball team on the NBA 40 years ago.

Portland Trailblazers had been the hardest hit by personnel injuries for the past three years.

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Portland Trailblazers fans believe that the franchise is cursed because of these injuries to players from Bill Walton extending to Greg Oden and the rest of the team as the Portland TrailBlazers franchise received its name on Friday the 13th when the city if Portland was naming their Basketball team on the NBA 40 years ago.

Portland Trailblazers had been the hardest hit by personnel injuries for the past three years.

Maybe it's time for Portland to change their franchise name. What kind of product that is synonymous to Portland?

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Maybe it's time for Portland to change their franchise name. What kind of product that is synonymous to Portland?

I don't think the Portland will drop the Trailblazer name for their city's basketball team. Blazermania and RIP-CITY are there to stay.

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This is kinda off-topic, but I found something about the other nicknames of Portland

Nicknames of Portland, Oregon

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The rose has played a significant role in Portland's history and inspires one of the city's major nicknames.


There are several well-known and commonly used nicknames referring to Portland, Oregon.
Contents

• 1 City of Roses
• 2 Bridgetown
• 3 Little Beirut
• 4 P-Town
• 5 Rip City
• 6 Stumptown
• 7 Razorblade City
• 8 PDX
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City of Roses

The official,[1] and also most common, nickname for Portland is The City of Roses[1][2][3] or Rose City.[4][5] The first known reference to Portland as "The City of Roses" was made by visitors to an 1888 Episcopal Church convention, the nickname growing in popularity after the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition where Mayor Harry Lane suggested that the city needed a "festival of roses."[2] The first Portland Rose Festival was held two years later and remains the city's major annual festival a century later. There are many other cities and towns known as Rose City or The City of Roses.
The nickname is often attributed to Leo Samuel,[6] who founded the Oregon Life Insurance Company in 1906 (known today as Standard Insurance Company). Samuel, who moved to Portland in 1871,[7] grew roses outside his home. He placed a pair of shears outside his garden so people could snip a rose from his garden to take for themselves. This encouraged other people and business to plant their own roses outside their homes and business. Today, roses are still planted outside the Standard Insurance Company's home office building in downtown Portland.
This nickname likely inspired the name for the four-year-old female Asian elephant who arrived in 1953, Rosy. The first elephant ever to live in Oregon, she remained the matriarch of the herd and gave birth to six calves before her death in 1993. On August 31, 1994, her daughter Me-Tu became the first elephant in North America to have twins. On August 23, 2008, her granddaughter Rose-Tu (the surviving twin) gave birth to Samudra, the first third-generation elephant born in the United States.
On June 18, 2003, the city council unanimously approved a resolution adopting "City of Roses" as the city's official nickname.[1][2]
Bridgetown

Further information: Transportation in Portland, Oregon#Bridges
Portland is known as Bridgetown due to numerous bridges crossing the Willamette and Columbia rivers.[5] The river width spanned varies from 850 to 7,850 feet (260 to 2,390 m), and all of the bridges also span shoreline roads, paths, or other ground at each shore. In total, there are eleven bridges over the Willamette, including eight in the central area, and three over the Columbia.
Little Beirut

Staffers of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush used to refer to Portland as Little Beirut because of the protesters he encountered during his visits.[8]
P-Town

Portland is sometimes affectionately called P-Town by locals.[9][10][11]
Rip City

The nickname Rip City is usually used in the context of the city's NBA team, the Portland Trail Blazers.[12] The term was coined by the team's play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during a game against the Los Angeles Lakers on February 18, 1971, the Blazers' first season.[13] In the days prior to the three-point field goal, Blazers' guard Jim Barnett took an ill-advised long distance shot that nonetheless went in, giving the new team hope for a victory against the powerful Lakers. Excited, Schonely exclaimed "Rip City! All right!" Schonely admits that he has no idea how he came up with the expression, but it became synonymous with the team and the city of Portland.[14]
Stumptown

Stumptown was coined in a period of phenomenal growth in Portland after 1847. The city was growing so rapidly that the stumps of trees cut down to make way for roads were left until manpower could be spared to remove them. In some areas, the stumps remained for so long that locals whitewashed the stumps to make them more visible, and used them to cross the street without sinking into the mud.[15][16] Captain John C. Ainsworth commented that there were "more stumps than trees" in Portland in the early 1850s.[15][17]
In more modern terms, Stumptown is jocularly used as Portland's nickname for the city's lack of tall skyscrapers, the highest being only 546 feet.[18]
Razorblade City

Portland Hip-Hop group the Lifesavas brought this nickname into being as the fictional location of their album Gutterfly.[19] It has been commandeered by locals to reference Portland's relatively high depression and suicide rates.[20]
PDX

The city of Portland is nicknamed PDX synecdochically after the International Air Transport Association airport code for the Portland International Airport which is within the city limits. For example, the domain name for Portland State University is pdx.edu.

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Portland Trailblazers 2010-2011 Regular Season Schedule