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Portland Trail Blazers
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Portland Trail Blazers
The
Portland Trail Blazers
, commonly known as the
Blazers
, are an American professional basketball team based in
Portland, Oregon
. They play in the
Northwest Division
of the
Western Conference
in the
National Basketball Association
(NBA). The Trail Blazers played their home games in the
Memorial Coliseum
before moving to
Moda Center
in 1995 (called the Rose Garden until 2013). The franchise entered the league in 1970, and Portland has been its only home city. The franchise has enjoyed a strong following: from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games, the longest such streak in American major professional sports at the time, and only since surpassed by the
Boston Red Sox
. The Trail Blazers have been the only NBA team based in the binational
Pacific Northwest
, after the
Vancouver Grizzlies
relocated to Memphis
and became the
Memphis Grizzlies
in 2001, and the
Seattle SuperSonics
relocated to Oklahoma City
and became the
Oklahoma City Thunder
in 2008.
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