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Date	Process	Result
December 1, 2007	Peer review	Reviewed
January 4, 2008	Peer review	Reviewed
April 2, 2008	Good article nominee	Not listed
July 11, 2008	Good article nominee	Listed
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Schrempf[edit]

I didn't really feel Schrempf belonged in the Not to be Forgotten section considering he played barely 100 games for the Blazers in two seasons, averaging maybe 6ppg... if you include him you'd have to include just about everyone who ever played for the team. Sarge Baldy 14:51, May 12, 2004 (UTC)

Ime Udoka[edit]

In the roster template he has a Nigerian flag next to his name. He was born in Portland so he's not really an international player. If no one has anything against that I'll change it.

he played for the nigerian team in the world basketball finals so yeah

Why is this article so boring?[edit]

This article should talk about Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler and the culture of Blazermania. Why isn't there a Wikipedia entry for Blazermania? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.168.201.133 (talk • contribs)

Bloated Transactions section[edit]

The transactions section, in particular the list of draft picks, is ridiculously long and contains a lot of non-notable picks. More than half of these could be cut from this list, and/or moved to the rather underutilized List of transactions involving the Portland Trail Blazers article. I say keep the #1 picks (Walton, Oden, etc), league award winners, All-Star quality players, infamous picks (Bowie), and remove/move the rest. --Billdorr (talk) 09:32, 29 January 2008 (UTC) I deleted an inaccurate sentence in the section, the claim that Mychal Thompson was drafted before Larry Bird in the 1978 draft. First of all, Bird's senior year at Indiana State began in the fall of 1978; he wasn't eligible to be drafted until the 1979 draft. Second, and more importantly, there were several players around that time that hired lawyers to get around the draft so that they could sign with teams for which they wanted to play. Bird, Magic Johnson and Kyle Macy were notable for using this avenue. How it worked was that the league brokered the deals but, making the deals cost the teams their first-round draft picks. Hence, the reason Johnson was "drafted" by the Lakers, Bird by the Celtics and Macy by the Phoenix Suns. In the middle 1980's, the NBA's owners decided to close that loophole. The rest of the list of questionable draft picks by the Blazers is correct, however. 2601:1C0:5201:BEA0:ADAB:6632:5ED4:58ED (talk) 04:44, 27 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Issues with article[edit]

This 2008 article has significant uncited material (see the History and Front office sections) while the History section is overwhelmingly biased towards recent events. If these issues aren't fixed, a GAR may be necessary. ~~ AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 18:07, 24 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]