We Like the Blazers Brandon Goldner

Ep. 88 - Ryan and Brandon debate whether the NBA is over-marketing its biggest stars - the LeBron James’ and Kevin Durant’s of the league - in an attempt to appeal to casual fans who might not yet know who the next generation of stars like Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Anthony Edwards are.
If you want to skip to that discussion, it starts by framing the results of the first round so far at about 6:50.
We also talked about a bunch of other stuff, including:

How the Blazers make it VERY hard to actually win a car from hitting a half court shot.

The broadcasting teams handling the NBA Playoffs, both the good and the bad.

Whether the Rudy Gobert trade has been justified with Minnesota advancing to the 2nd round.

Why we shouldn’t compare where the Blazers are in their rebuild to the Oklahoma City Thunder.

Disappointment on Dame’s behalf as it looks like the Bucks are going to be bounced in the first round, and whether there’s hope for Milwaukee to come back stronger next year.

News about how the NBA’s new broadcasting rights deals are coming together, and whether this bodes well for Blazers games being more accessible to fans.


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Ep. 87 - Brandon is joined by his wife and lifelong baller Dr. Cassie Mullen to briefly talk about the NBA playoffs, how Cassie as a basketball player approaches pickup games, the pressures of "representing your gender" when you're just trying to ball, the impact of women's basketball on recreational fans, whether we want our kids to skip college to go directly to the WNBA / NBA, and MORE!
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Ep. 86 - The 2023-24 season is in the books! As the Blazers give their exit interviews, we talk about Coach Billups' comments about him saying he's "light years ahead of where I was" as a coach, the Blazers backing into a tie for 3rd-best lottery odds, whether we're excited for the Playoffs, and MORE!
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Ep. 85 - First: Please click the link to donate to Mike Lynch and his family in his fight against ALS. https://www.gofundme.com/f/t4yrzf-help-mike-fight-als?qid=f4512a84baa1ed4a7eb4957fb12660ed
In this weeks' episode, Ryan and Brandon talk about the Women’s College Basketball Championship, the factors behind why women’s basketball is finally becoming more mainstream, and whether the WNBA's season schedule will change in the future to reach more people. Meanwhile in Portland, the Blazers have four games remaining on their schedule, and Ryan is extremely worried that they may eke out two more wins.
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Ep. 84 - Keith Feltner-Smith of The Trailcasters joins to talk about what we're looking for from the Blazers late in a tanking season, answering some questions about whether Portland or Charlotte is tanking harder, and MORE!
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Ep. 83 - As the NBA dissolves the G-League Ignite, Ryan is given his flowers and takes a victory lap for essentially breaking news before it happened. After a detour into NBA players (illegally) betting on themselves and the bigger issues of the NBA monetizing gambling on its own product, Brandon and Ryan discuss the recent surge in Scoot Henderson’s output and debate whether you would rather have him or Amen Thompson - aka the “next Scottie Pippen” - on this rebuilding Blazers squad.
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