Boy howdy has the first round playoff series between the Portland Trail Blazers and the Denver Nuggets been a roller-coaster! Green and Whitty give a quick recap of the various wrinkles in the series thus far before reflecting on Damian Lillard's HISTORIC Game 5 performance. They try to assess who is to blame for that performance ending up in a loss and what has worked so far for Portland in the series. Finally, before diving in to what we expect to see in Game 6 (and hopefully 7), we try and figure out why fans are assholes and dream of Danny Ainge coming home to Portland.Rip City! Go BlazersPlease subscribe to stay up to date on our latest episodes and interviews!

The last few days of the regular season of the NBA saw some weird shenanigans out west as teams were jockeying for playoff positioning. Meanwhile, Damian Lillard and the Portland Trail Blazers were all business, suits included, in closing out the season strong with a win over their playoff opponent, the Denver Nuggets. After some house cleaning with Trail Mix, the guys Dribble around the league to look at the rest of the playoff picture and also discuss Kyrie Irving's continued disdain of the media. Then they close out by previewing the Blazers series with the Nuggets and bet on how confident they are in the pinwheels ability to make it out of the 1st round.As always, please subscribe to stay up to date on our tomfoolery and questionable takes.Go Blazers!

A two man crew edition this week, as Brandon has officially left us for his new life in Vegas. The Ryans lament about how much the team has changed since hope was seemingly lost two weeks ago, and what they believe lies ahead for them in the final three games of the season. Then, in an impromptu chat, they staff an entire strip club with nothing but Trail Blazers players and staffers and come up with some shocking conclusions. Finally, they look out across the league to break down the West play-off races, debate the accomplishments of Russell Westbrook with him breaking the triple-double record, and crown a winner in the Bradley Beal/Kent Bazemore twitter battle!As always, be sure to subscribe wherever you get podcasts and GO BLAZERS!

*Recorded before the Blazers/Pacers game*The guys gather for Hair's last in person podcast before he moves to Las Vegas (Alaska?), and bring all the energy of the Blazers on their 5 game losing streak. What went wrong, is there any hope left, and can Green actually edit out a 3 minute rant while recording? Listen to find out!

The Blazers can't beat good teams and the chemistry is starting to show cracks. How do the guys think the team can be fixed? Is there any hope for a post-season run? And we get in to a very heated Nurk vs Kanter debate!

The man, the myth, the legend, Henry Abbott of the award-winning TrueHoop joins Whitty and Green on this OverTime Edition. At ESPN Henry expanded TrueHoop into a blog network, digital video series, and podcast and headed ESPN's NBA team. TrueHoop was relaunched independently in 2019. After running around and securing our St. Patrick's Day drinks, we start off talking about the brilliance that is Damian Lillard and his ability to pull wins out of thin air. From there, the guys try and dig in to what the ceiling is for this Trail Blazers team and if Coach Terry Stotts is a good coach or if he is holding Dame back in his prime.After you give this a listen, go to www.truehoop.com and sign up to read the one of a kind NBA journalism you can only find on the godfather of sports blogs!

On the first OverTime Edition of Season 4, Whitty talks with AJ McCord of KOIN 6 about her her new gig as the midday host of AJ and Dusty on 1080 The Fan. Then, Whitty and Hair sit down with the owner of the Penalties Sports Pub, Joey Ferguson, and ask about being a lifelong Blazer fan and opening a new bar in the middle of a pandemic.

When is it too soon to talk about a popular show without it being considered "spoilers?" After that fun debate Green, Whitty, and Hair jump in to their thoughts on how All-Star "Weekend" went, the performance of RoCo and Ant in their challenges, and Dame putting on a show amongst the stars of the league. Then they get in to Dribbles where Brandon finds out exactly why people are so upset over some of the changes being made to characters in Space Jam 2, as well as touching briefly on the Blake Griffin signing with the Nets. Finally, we give a recap of where we all stand in some of our season long Beer Bets before giving our thoughts on what to expect from the Blazers in the second half of the season.Make sure to subscribe wherever you get podcasts to catch our interview later in the week with AJ McCord of KOIN6 and 1080 The Fan and Joey Ferguson, the owner of Penalties Sports Pub in downtown Vancouver*Recorded before the various Meyers Leonard and LaMarcus Aldridge news*

Whole lot for Green, Whitty, and Hair to unpack here in this weeks episode!*The Blazers winning and losing streak*LaMelo vs Melo is stupid*The Great (Stotts) Debate continues*Nas vs Hood*Blazers All-Star "Weekend" is a meh*NBA Top Shot

Whitty, Green, and Brandon survived Portland Snowpocalypse 2021! Why do people abandon their cars in the middle of the street in storms? And then in actual basketball conversation, we touch on the Blazer's winning ways, Dame's All-Star outlook, some Blake Griffin rumors, and the National Anthem debate.

They guys wonder how quickly they could get sued for copywrite if they really put their minds to it. Then we break over react to the Blazers preseason show, discuss the future of Zack Collins and Gary Trent Jr after the team declines offering contract extensions, get in to a heated debate about the Harden drama and if you would want him anywhere near the Blazers locker room, and final fantasize about the start of the Trail Blazers season! And as always, we end the show with the first Beer Bet of the Week!

Whitty had conversations with some of Blazers Twitter most famous influencers last week. Starting things off is Tara Bowen-Biggs (@tcbbiggs) chatting about expectations for the team and her new podcast endeavors. Then we move on to chat with Evan McCarthy (@evanem) to talk his art, life in New Orleans, and his changing tune about Neil Olshey

Whitty, Hair, and Green are BACK with the Season 4 Premiere of the BlazerTag Podcast! As usual, we start things off with our Pre-Season Roster Rankings and then break down how we think the Western Conference will shake out! And FINALLY, the much anticipated Season Long Beer Bet projecting the Blazers win total! This one was such a debate that we had to bring in friend of the show Andrew Belvin to be our official Bet Commissioner. Enjoy!RIP CITY!

Brandon Sprague, co-host and namesake of Dirt & Sprague on 1080 The Fan joins Whitty FROM ON THE GOLF COURSE to get his thoughts on the Trail Blazers 1st Round Playoff Series against the top seeded Lakers. Then old friend of the show, Keith Feltner-Smith of The Trailcasters comes in to play clean up and pour on all the optimism before the games get underway!Search the new show title and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts (old RSS feed no longer works)!

AJ McCord of KOIN 6 starts things off with Whitty talking about the Blazers nail-biting win over the Brooklyn Nets before talking about the stellar play of Damian Lillard and the Blazers chances to make a deep playoff run. Then Eric Brandt of of Blazers Uprise hops on to break down the play style of the team and explains his criticism of Terry Stotts.

Team Mom joins Whitty immediately following the Blazers win over the Denver Nuggets. He gets her thoughts on leaving BlazersEdge, the play of Gary Trent Jr, Nurk, and Ant, and how he remaining seeding games will shake out

The most socially distanced show we've ever done, Dia Miller (Los Angeles) joins Whitty (Eugene) and Green (Vancouver) again now that bubble basketball has officially began. The Blazers are playing well, and many consider them a dark horse to completely overtake the 8th seed. Other topics covered are Zack Collins or Meyers Leonard, Nurk being a beast, how long can our dynamic duo stay together, and do we still stand by our predictions from before the restart.

The NBA is BACK! Dia Miller of BlazersEdge and SlamCulture joins Whitty to discuss the Trail Blazers chances at the playoffs and how we feel they will finish off the "refreshed" season!