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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Boise State is putting out the True Haters bat signal and, reader, I am ready to heed the call.

Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Running back a slow motion replay of Emily Engstler yelling the F word on this fine Sunday afternoon just as the Fire settle into getting boat raced. Thank you KPTV and Em for the collab.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

There are more important and introspective parts of this @bullseye.maximumfun.org interview but Isaiah Rashad being really into Chopped and Screwed Outkast records really makes his whole sound make a lot sense youtu.be/5O12vfIVOQc?...

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Isaiah Rashad loves Prince, Outkast and a nice salad - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A full morning of exposure to the culture war poisoning that roots for sports owners to be Maximum Efficient could spell the end for one local podcaster.

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Katie Heindl @wtevs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

'exits' begins! for the 6th year running, an nba playoff series that looks back on the seasons that weren't for each team as they're eliminated for the blazers, @mikegrich.bsky.social writes about what happens when a billionaire cheapskate treats a team like a bottom line

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Exits: A light hostage situation

The Trail Blazers were back in the playoffs after seven seasons, but what does having a new owner who treats the team like a bottom line mean for Portland's way forward?

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

One time I told my friend (adjacent the music scene in LA) that Justin Bieber always had the sharpest production and that I wished my favorite rappers could emulate those crisp drums. He told me his pal was essentially attending Biebs Production College to learn to make a the perfect hi-hat clap.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

(Because I am procrastinating doing a thing I need to do and it’s 10pm on a Thursday here’s a thing I really like) I think about this @bullseye.maximumfun.org with @jessethorn.bsky.social episode with Mavi as much as any podcast episode/interview I have ever listened to: youtu.be/DJZGNJ7HmTE?...

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MAVI on Overcoming Loneliness & Thinking in Systems - Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Premium Portland experience: Asking the bartender in an empty bar to turn down The Shins and turn up the sound on the TV playing sports and they politely decline.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Bam Adebayo is definitive proof that the best basketball players in the world do and always have come from Eastern North Carolina. Kick rocks Southern California, Chicagoland and the Balkans.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

If you are the young person wearing the red Trail Blazers Gary Payton II in the third row at Moda tonight … come on Locked On Blazers to unpack your trauma

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

I wrote about ghost hunting and Damian Lillard. I don't write anymore (because I only get paid to yap) so, I guess, read this and I might do it again(?) medium.com/@michaelgric...

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Ghost Hunting

During the spring of my senior year of high school, our history class went ghost hunting in Harper’s Ferry, VA, a historic Civil War town…

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Caleb Love has been incredible and the Moda Center is making sure fans appreciate it with ummm whatever this is.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

How could the Blazers do *this* to *me*, a podcaster in need of 30 minutes of content

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Glad y’all are getting a few games of the raw and uncut Caleb Love experience. It is extremely dangerous in every direction.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Blazers cursed by these unforgivable overhead camera angles? Could be!

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I’m rebranding as a guy who posts music videos from 20 years ago. youtu.be/1LLAN29W-4w?...

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Battles - Tonto

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I got a haircut and recorded an episode of Locked On Blazers this morning. If you're interested in the latter, it is in your audio feeds and on YouTube right now.

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Lev Akabas @levakabas.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🚨 SCOOP 🚨: Carolina Hurricanes owner Tom Dundon has agreed to buy the Portland Trail Blazers from Paul Allen's estate @sportico.bsky.social values the franchise at $3.6 billion Read more: www.sportico.com/business/tea...

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Nobody writes like Katie. Nobody writes about Summer League like Katie. Students are so lucky to learn how to approach the craft from someone so uniquely talented. "Don’t bury it, don’t write from down here ... We have enough of that for lifetimes. Go up."

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

After some consideration: Hansen Yang appears to be the Hasheem Thabeet of Marc Gasols

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

lol the partially recorded podcast graveyard claims another file

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

(I never do this and I don’t have any followers so someone with reach please RT) Send me your Blazers draft dreams. Either a player they pick at 11, or something else that is mildly plausible for draft night. I will use the ones I like on the podcast* *unless I do not follow through on this idea.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Perhaps I could widen my interests and become a more well rounded adult. But... Ball Is Life.

A list of seven emails all pertaining to the NBA. This game is and always will be about buckets.

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Bill Oram @billoram.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“I never had anyone really that went through the experience that I was going through," Donovan Clingan said. When Justin Minaya's mom died last summer, the Blazers rookie became that person for his new teammate. New column: www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2025...

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Oram: Stacey Clingan and Rachel Minaya never met. Their sons have become ‘brothers’

Donovan Clingan, who lost his mom at age 14, became a source of strength for Justin Minaya, whose mother died last summer.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Duke fraudulent. Cooper Flagg is Lee Nailon with a PR firm. Go Heels.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Oh no the Noble Blazers of Postseason Pursuit are perhaps flirting with something unsavory. Lol.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Deserve got nothin to do with it

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The last two sporting events I’ve tried to show my two year old have been an absolutely excruciating Carolina loss and the Thorns giving up a goal in 4 minutes. This is actually good parenting. Most teams lose, kid. We’re going to the Blazers game tomorrow. Sorry in advance.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Making content on the internet everyday can be exhausting at times. There’s a lot of dummies with access to a bullhorn to tell you something you put effort into sucks and is bad. But sometimes it can be deeply rewarding to hear from folks who appreciate your work

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

As our notions of a constitutional democracy are decaying at warp speed around us, there's been a lot of good Trail Blazers content on the internet this week!

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

12 days between losses felt like several months. Mostly because each day is *a lot* right now but also the Blazers did a lot of convincing winning. They will likely win some games again and also lose some. Please like and subscribe.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

For those curious, the NBA did not reach out to Shaedon Sharpe about participating in the dunk contest. He told me he didn’t know if he would’ve done it if offered but they never contacted him or his agency as far he knows.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

A podcast? Focusing on the Portland Trail Blazers? Ostensibly centered around this game? Absolutely. No problem. None at all.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A Carolina basketball thought: Not having a single good player taller than 6-6 in the era of college hoops free agency should be a fireable offense. Also, I love this stupid tiny team. Oops all guards: Piedmont Edition.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I’m proud of the work I’ve done in 2024 but really closed the year strong by introducing a remix to Whodini’s classic “Friends” for when my 2 year old is getting dressed. “Pants! How many of us have them (have them)? Pants! Ones we can depend on! Pants.”

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The thing about the AI revolution is that it's taken negative customer service interactions into new and interesting places.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

so many layers to this blazers onion, donkey like and subscribe.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

The Mavericks are shooting 73% on 2s.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I got laid off from a pretty sweet full time job in sports in 2018. I will never work in sports full time ever again. (I mean, I would. Hit me up.) I have a family it’s simply not viable for us to keep the lights on and go to the doctor.

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Mike Richman @mikegrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@kpelton.bsky.social I can't find it because The Internet In 2024... but I know you once answered a Pelton Mailbag Q about lineup data stabilizing at ~X number of possessions. You got that link (or even just the number roughly) handy?

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Today on @channel6.bsky.social we have an important piece on Bill Belichick, time, aging, legacy, and loss channel-6.ghost.io/bitch-you-ha...

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BITCH, YOU HAVE A BOAT

Nice boat!!

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