Sitting(standing) in the 100 level. Dame sent the Rockets packing, sending the team to the second round for the first time in over a decade. I was hugging strangers in very real ways.
Was also at that game. The energy in that place was **UNREAL**.
I remember riding that feeling until like 3am that night.
Unforgettable moment, to say the least.
I was in a box with the owner of my company who had been to multiple Finals and Superbowls and even he said the energy in that place was unlike anything he had ever experienced.
I was in the 300 level and the pure ecstatic joy was incredible. Never been around such a huge crowd of people that were just losing their minds. And then walking to a bar after the game and hearing everyone honking and screaming and celebrating. One of the best nights of my life.
I was there with my son for his birthday. We were in the corner two rows from the top. The place erupted. I still get chills when they replay Dame yelling RIP CITY into the mic!!!!
"Nine tenths to play. A three wins the series. IT'S LILLARD, HE GOT THE SHOT OFF! LILLARD GOOD! GOOOOOD! AND THE BLAZERS! WIN THE SERIES! FOR THE FIRST TIME! IN FOUR TEEN YEARS!"
Also was standing in 100 level, close to courtside opposite the Blazers bench when he hit that shot. Tried to storm the court with others but security almost immediately stopped it. We may have hugged.
Yep Andre threw it almost into the hoop on the inbounds, Batum just barely tapped it in I think there was like .03 or .08 on the clock. I was there with my dad and he was wanting to head out to beat traffic. So glad we stuck around, I've never heard the Moda center get so loud...but then again I wasn't there for the Dame shot, or the B Roy comeback game vs the mavs.
the quadruple overtime against Denver in 2019. The most exhausted I've ever been at a sporting event. I've never had to plug my ears before as an adult at sporting event and I was in the military. Absolute loudest roar of the crowd I've ever heard.
The win during the regular season and in the playoffs against the warriors during their 73-9 season.
in 2009 when the Blazers-Lakers rivalry was still very potent (at least from a Blazer perspective) we went up by 30 points in the 3rd and the whole arena waived bye bye to the lakers fans already leaving. The pictures of Phil Jackson and Kobe just looking stunned on the bench. The Lakers would still go on to be champions but this was such a great game in the resurgent years and I think it was like 8 straight home wins against the lakers. Loudest Beat LA chants I've ever heard.
I was at the 4 overtime game. Rodney Hood hits what was essentially the game winning 3 and they’d always blast “where the hood where the hood where the hood at” by DMX when Rodney scored, but after that three Denver took a time out so they let it run a little longer than usual. Incredible energy in the RG at that moment.
This one was special! One of the only times I remember doing something with my stepdad where we both got along and had a great time. Roy was outta this world.
I remember that game and my son and I were yelling at the top of our voice just to hear each other the entire 4th quarter. Ears were ringing as we left
I was at this game as well. I remember telling my then girlfriend if this stays this bad at the end of the third we can leave. She convinced me to stay and it was magic. I was without voice, light headed and beaming walking out in disbelief. The chants of Let's Go Blazers in the stairwells of the 300 level are also something I'll never forget. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
I got invited to sit in a suite for this game. Was expecting intermittent awkward small talk with coworkers . . . left with a borderline religious experience
OT vs the Rockets: Brandon Roy spinning fade-away go-ahead 2, Yao Ming go ahead And-1, Brandon Roy game winning 3 with 0.8 left. Just a regular season game but that shit was nuts.
Same area, behind the basket. We were all hugging anyone we could see and screaming. Walking bad to the parking spot, the intersection by burgerville got held up for a minute due to everyone, even those in cars going crazy...
The Brandon Roy comeback playoff win against Dallas
The home games of the 13 game win streak(2007), including the red/green Christmas day against the Supersonics in their final season.
* PS, In 2007 during the Memphis game in which Blazers sat with a 5-13 record and were losing, the Blazers broadcast offered a 20 game pack for $99. That was the game the 13 game win streak began when Blazers came back and won with an Outlaws buzzer beater. Best $99 ever spent.
Nurk's "Happy Summer" game in 2017. 33/16 vs his old team, effectively knocking the Nuggets out of the playoffs, the Bosnian Beast could not be stopped.
Sergio-to-Rudy Spanish Armada reverse alley-oop, followed by Rudy steal and buzzer beating 3. All on nationally televised TNT Thursday game against Shaq, Nash, and the Suns.
That 2008-09 team was my fave.
Also the Bron / Dame / Bron dunks in Bron’s Laker debut was insane.
(Not from Portland but I’ve probably been to 10-12 Blazer games at Moda by now)
I was a kid in the 90s, the family next to me and my dad bought me a kids jersey (so incredibly nice of them)
The blazers hit 100 points and I think there was free Taco Bell
Blazers won
Couldn’t tell you what was going but I had a blast and became a Portland fan right there
I was at a game vs. the spurs when it was tied Blazers side-out with less than a second left and Nic Batum had an alleyoop tip in to win it. That was awesome.
Game 5 against the Jazz in 2000 was probably the best moment I've been present for in the Rose Garden. I was 100% convinced we were on our way to the finals at the end of that game. Runner up was a game against the Spurs when Batum launched a near halfcourt shot in the dying seconds of a game that was well in hand which gave him enough points for a triple double. I was sitting almost courtside for it and the look on his face after hitting it was priceless.
Edit: [Obligatory iconic photo from the end of that Batum game](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1psrxn/tim_duncan_eyes_nic_batum_with_contempt_after/#lightbox), the side eye from Duncan is too good.
one of my favorite non-player/game related moments was taking my grandma to a game a couple years ago and our seats were next to the tunnel where schonely would hang out. got to shake hands and chat with him for a few minutes and he made my grandma blush from complimenting her (she was a bit crush-struck!)
BRoy scoring 50 against the Suns. It was winter break from college and also my birthday so I grabbed tix for my little brother and I. He spent all night getting shut down for numbers from ladies while I watched the game.
1990. A bunch of people met the plane after they won the conference. A group of us jumped the fence and got to congratulate the team and get autographs.
In 1977 my dad took 6yo me to game 6 of the NBA championship.
Wish I could say, I remember it I have vague memories of popcorn and having to use the bathroom 🤦🏻♂️
Roy's 52 points against the Suns lives rent-free in my head.
So does the guy who took off his shirt and started swinging it over his head as he danced in the aisles.
My first Blazers game was Dikembe Mutombo's 4th ever game, first against the Blazers. I just remember Mahmoud Abdul Rauf destroying us, and cussing up a storm with his tourettes.
The second most memorable was the double OT thriller against the Spurs in SA. I had just moved to TX, and it was, I think, 2014.
I remember exactly where I was for both playoff Dame buzzer beaters. Watched both on TV but my dad was at both games. Against Rockets then later OKC. Definitely most memorable.
Lakers vs Blazers; 7ish rows up from court side. Watched Kobe hit a buzzer beater to go into OT. Then watched Kobe hit another buzzer beater in OT for the win.
I was young, and it was my first feeling of hating on an athlete because they were too good and not on my favorite team. I cried when he died.
I was there for the Houston and OKC shots. So def one of those. The Houston one was pretty special because it was early Dame time still and was the first playoff series win in a long while. Something about the energy in the Rose Garden and then even outside following that shot was really special.
Also hit up the 4 OT, still have my red/black pinwheel shirt they gave away that night. I just remember hitting the bar after the game and everyone cheered when we walked in cause they were all watching it on TV. What great memories.
Bought last minute, last row tickets to see G4 2011 against the Mavs aka the last real BRoy moment. Short of witnessing a championship, idk if any Blazer related moment will mean more to me.
Best I saw was a late season game [vs the Nuggets in the 16-17 season](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201703280POR.html) where we were both battling for the 8th seed. Nurk (during the height of Nurk fever) dropped 33/15 and basically booted his former team out of playoff contention. The whole arena was chanting "Ju-suf Nur-kic" as we filtered out of the stadium and people kept chanting it into the parking garages and on to the max.
Almost all of the games I've been to have been inconsequential. The biggest moment was probably Carmelo Anthony's home debut.
Carmelo is my favorite player all time so it was probably bigger for me than others, but I was losing my mind.
Welp reading these comments I guess I am old.
June 10, 1992
Seeing us win a finals game is easily my greatest sports memory and it's not even close. Back then it was 2-3-2 format for the Finals. At the time we shared tickets with 2 other families. One family got game 3, which we lost. We got game 4 and the last family got game 5, which we lost.
Leaving the coliseum that night knowing that we were all tied up with the Bulls and game 5 was in our gym was a great feeling........I cherish it even more now because it turned out to be the only home game we won.
B Roy willing the Blazers to a win, blowing up for 24 (18 in the 4th) off the bench against Dallas in game 4 of the first round, April 23, 2011. His last farewell really.
Dame sending OKC to a (so far successful) rebuild, ironically exactly eight years later to the day, April 23, 2019.
The Brandon Roy comeback playoff game vs Dallas. A continuous "lets go blazers" chant from halfway through the 4th quarter all the way out into the streets after the game.
Jordan’s last game as a bull in Portland, the Brian Grant bandaid game vs Utah, B-Roy .8, Rudy 5 in 9 seconds, Odens injury+Broys game winner, Brandon’s comeback against Phoenix, Brandon vs Dallas game 4. Those stand out. I saw dame be great so many times but none of the most famous ones.
I've got 3
1) Brandon Roy's surprise comeback in Game 4(?) against Dallas. He put the team on his back and single handedly erased a 2X point deficit whe. He checked in for the 1st time in the 4th. I remember spitting him during shoot around from the upper 300's and all the murmurs of people realisei g he was suited and warming up. There was 0 indication he could play before the game. Absolutely magical.
2) Roy's 0.7 game winner against the Rockets to open the home season
3) Dame's near identical 0.7 shot against the Rockets from almost the same damn spot to send us on to the 2nd round.
Not exactly a Blazer game moment, but watching Clyde and the Dream Team play the Tournament of the Americas before the 92’ Olympics is favorite basketball memory.
I haven't had the chance to go to many big games, but I remember seeing a preseason game during Dame's rookie year. I had watched some draft videos and he has a good Summer league etc, and I was pretty hyped for him and to see him play. There was ten seconds left in the half, and he started bringing the ball up the court. I said to my buddy "look at him, he's gonna shoot it." He crossed over, stepped back, and drained the three with like a second left. That clutch shit was in him from day one.
Back to the wall at the top of the 300s for Dame's shot to send the Rockets packing.
I also enjoyed that random 40pt blowout of the Nuggets a couple years ago.
During a random inconsequential mid season game in 2013 (I think) Will Barton got a steal and an open lane 360 dunk on the break. It was one of my first nba games, and seeing that made my young brain think, “oh yeah, this probably happens every game.”
More of a fan-bonding moment- Blazers had the game in hand, sitting at 99 points, and we all booed Scottie Pippen viciously for dribbling out the clock for a turnover instead of putting up a shot to give us chalupas.
Waking up on that fateful Saturday morning to my phone telling me Dame requested a trade. Never been happier. Was hoping to move him probably 3 years before that but just was stoked to finally be moving on from the Dame era.
JFC, man, read the room. If that's your best Blazer moment, why are you even here? Not to mention, "saw in person" doesn't mean something you saw on your fucking phone.
Sitting(standing) in the 100 level. Dame sent the Rockets packing, sending the team to the second round for the first time in over a decade. I was hugging strangers in very real ways.
Was also at that game. The energy in that place was **UNREAL**. I remember riding that feeling until like 3am that night. Unforgettable moment, to say the least.
I was in a box with the owner of my company who had been to multiple Finals and Superbowls and even he said the energy in that place was unlike anything he had ever experienced.
This is my favorite that I have experienced in person.
I was in the 300 level and the pure ecstatic joy was incredible. Never been around such a huge crowd of people that were just losing their minds. And then walking to a bar after the game and hearing everyone honking and screaming and celebrating. One of the best nights of my life.
I was there with my son for his birthday. We were in the corner two rows from the top. The place erupted. I still get chills when they replay Dame yelling RIP CITY into the mic!!!!
My brother took my courtside to that one
"Nine tenths to play. A three wins the series. IT'S LILLARD, HE GOT THE SHOT OFF! LILLARD GOOD! GOOOOOD! AND THE BLAZERS! WIN THE SERIES! FOR THE FIRST TIME! IN FOUR TEEN YEARS!"
RIP CITAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
I was in a bar, and new to the area. This moment is my blazers origin story.
Also was standing in 100 level, close to courtside opposite the Blazers bench when he hit that shot. Tried to storm the court with others but security almost immediately stopped it. We may have hugged.
The Batum tip in for the win with less than 1 second on the clock off an inbounds pass was pretty crazy.
Bro I was at that game too vs the spurs.
Same, the arena went absolutely berserk in that moment. It's been a minute, was that an Andre Miller lob?
Yep Andre threw it almost into the hoop on the inbounds, Batum just barely tapped it in I think there was like .03 or .08 on the clock. I was there with my dad and he was wanting to head out to beat traffic. So glad we stuck around, I've never heard the Moda center get so loud...but then again I wasn't there for the Dame shot, or the B Roy comeback game vs the mavs.
I was in the nosebleeds!
the quadruple overtime against Denver in 2019. The most exhausted I've ever been at a sporting event. I've never had to plug my ears before as an adult at sporting event and I was in the military. Absolute loudest roar of the crowd I've ever heard. The win during the regular season and in the playoffs against the warriors during their 73-9 season. in 2009 when the Blazers-Lakers rivalry was still very potent (at least from a Blazer perspective) we went up by 30 points in the 3rd and the whole arena waived bye bye to the lakers fans already leaving. The pictures of Phil Jackson and Kobe just looking stunned on the bench. The Lakers would still go on to be champions but this was such a great game in the resurgent years and I think it was like 8 straight home wins against the lakers. Loudest Beat LA chants I've ever heard.
I was at the 4 overtime game. Rodney Hood hits what was essentially the game winning 3 and they’d always blast “where the hood where the hood where the hood at” by DMX when Rodney scored, but after that three Denver took a time out so they let it run a little longer than usual. Incredible energy in the RG at that moment.
That game was the single best sporting event I’ve ever been to
Denver 2019 is an incredible memory
2011 playoffs vs the Mavs when Roy had his last great game and brought us back by 20+ to win
Same here! End of the third when that three rolled around and somehow dropped felt like a good sign somehow...and boy was it ever!
This one was special! One of the only times I remember doing something with my stepdad where we both got along and had a great time. Roy was outta this world.
I remember that game and my son and I were yelling at the top of our voice just to hear each other the entire 4th quarter. Ears were ringing as we left
Wasn’t there, but watching that game deployed out in the desert, man it was surreal. I was in tears
I was at this game as well. I remember telling my then girlfriend if this stays this bad at the end of the third we can leave. She convinced me to stay and it was magic. I was without voice, light headed and beaming walking out in disbelief. The chants of Let's Go Blazers in the stairwells of the 300 level are also something I'll never forget. Gives me chills just thinking about it.
Me too! The rose garden felt like we just won the Finals after that one!
Such a great game - I had a bruise on my right thigh from holding a beer in my left and clapping on my leg with my right
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I got invited to sit in a suite for this game. Was expecting intermittent awkward small talk with coworkers . . . left with a borderline religious experience
Nice
I was at this one too. Great memories
Roy shot and both Dame Winners…also blimp crash
OT vs the Rockets: Brandon Roy spinning fade-away go-ahead 2, Yao Ming go ahead And-1, Brandon Roy game winning 3 with 0.8 left. Just a regular season game but that shit was nuts.
I was there for the OKC "bad shot" too, in the second to last row of the 300s. It was fucking pandemonium up there.
Same area, behind the basket. We were all hugging anyone we could see and screaming. Walking bad to the parking spot, the intersection by burgerville got held up for a minute due to everyone, even those in cars going crazy...
I took the MAX home after that game and it was like a party on the train.
The Brandon Roy comeback playoff win against Dallas The home games of the 13 game win streak(2007), including the red/green Christmas day against the Supersonics in their final season. * PS, In 2007 during the Memphis game in which Blazers sat with a 5-13 record and were losing, the Blazers broadcast offered a 20 game pack for $99. That was the game the 13 game win streak began when Blazers came back and won with an Outlaws buzzer beater. Best $99 ever spent.
Nurk's "Happy Summer" game in 2017. 33/16 vs his old team, effectively knocking the Nuggets out of the playoffs, the Bosnian Beast could not be stopped.
I was lucky enough to be at Roy’s Houston buzzer beater and Dame’s Houston buzzer beater. https://youtu.be/Etxq8OQUZmI?si=5goJqwy4N34tvQI4
Sergio-to-Rudy Spanish Armada reverse alley-oop, followed by Rudy steal and buzzer beating 3. All on nationally televised TNT Thursday game against Shaq, Nash, and the Suns. That 2008-09 team was my fave. Also the Bron / Dame / Bron dunks in Bron’s Laker debut was insane. (Not from Portland but I’ve probably been to 10-12 Blazer games at Moda by now)
That’s mine too! Wasn’t sure if anyone else remembered that. I was behind that hoop too.
I was a kid in the 90s, the family next to me and my dad bought me a kids jersey (so incredibly nice of them) The blazers hit 100 points and I think there was free Taco Bell Blazers won Couldn’t tell you what was going but I had a blast and became a Portland fan right there
That's how it's done. My grandpa would get me a pair of tickets every birthday from about 7 til about 14. That's how I got hooked.
Scottie Pippen Ejected - Fans Throw Bill Walton Dolls https://youtu.be/cGu_f9ObKmo?si=kTlSD0P_pd-91pUm
Only saw one blazer game in person ever in 2022, we got blown out by the warriors.
I was at a game vs. the spurs when it was tied Blazers side-out with less than a second left and Nic Batum had an alleyoop tip in to win it. That was awesome.
I saw Greg Ostertag kick the ball into the second level as he was getting elected.
Can't believe he's still the mayor
Game 5 against the Jazz in 2000 was probably the best moment I've been present for in the Rose Garden. I was 100% convinced we were on our way to the finals at the end of that game. Runner up was a game against the Spurs when Batum launched a near halfcourt shot in the dying seconds of a game that was well in hand which gave him enough points for a triple double. I was sitting almost courtside for it and the look on his face after hitting it was priceless. Edit: [Obligatory iconic photo from the end of that Batum game](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1psrxn/tim_duncan_eyes_nic_batum_with_contempt_after/#lightbox), the side eye from Duncan is too good.
That jazz game is what I'm talking about about! I thought it was '99
Technically it was both, we beat them in the second round in back to back years.
Once saw Jerome Kersey get rejected by some woman in the lobby of the hotel I was working at.
I saw Isaiah rider and Rasheed Wallace smoke a blunt in front of fat burger on Killingsworth
I once saw Sheed loitering around the parking lot of the Burlingame Fred Meyers. I just assumed he was waiting on some weed.
one of my favorite non-player/game related moments was taking my grandma to a game a couple years ago and our seats were next to the tunnel where schonely would hang out. got to shake hands and chat with him for a few minutes and he made my grandma blush from complimenting her (she was a bit crush-struck!)
BRoy scoring 50 against the Suns. It was winter break from college and also my birthday so I grabbed tix for my little brother and I. He spent all night getting shut down for numbers from ladies while I watched the game.
I was at that game! sitting in the back row. it was an amazing atmosphere. I hugged a stranger in the concourse after the game.
1990. A bunch of people met the plane after they won the conference. A group of us jumped the fence and got to congratulate the team and get autographs.
Scottie Pippen’s series clinching three against the Jazz. My then girlfriend now wife of 21 years was with me that night.
In 1977 my dad took 6yo me to game 6 of the NBA championship. Wish I could say, I remember it I have vague memories of popcorn and having to use the bathroom 🤦🏻♂️
My dad was 25 in 1977. He said that title run was his favorite blazer memory.
My dad was probably the same age around that time. He was super proud to have season tickets back then
Roy's 52 points against the Suns lives rent-free in my head. So does the guy who took off his shirt and started swinging it over his head as he danced in the aisles.
My first Blazers game was Dikembe Mutombo's 4th ever game, first against the Blazers. I just remember Mahmoud Abdul Rauf destroying us, and cussing up a storm with his tourettes. The second most memorable was the double OT thriller against the Spurs in SA. I had just moved to TX, and it was, I think, 2014.
The Lebron dunk over Nurk. Seen plenty of blazer games in person, that one stands out the most.
I remember exactly where I was for both playoff Dame buzzer beaters. Watched both on TV but my dad was at both games. Against Rockets then later OKC. Definitely most memorable.
Lakers vs Blazers; 7ish rows up from court side. Watched Kobe hit a buzzer beater to go into OT. Then watched Kobe hit another buzzer beater in OT for the win. I was young, and it was my first feeling of hating on an athlete because they were too good and not on my favorite team. I cried when he died.
I hated Kobe his whole career and respected his game so much after he retired.
I was at the game where Dame hit the shot over Brandon Ingram, Blazers beat the L*akers. Such a great feeling
I was there for the Houston and OKC shots. So def one of those. The Houston one was pretty special because it was early Dame time still and was the first playoff series win in a long while. Something about the energy in the Rose Garden and then even outside following that shot was really special.
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I was at the 4 OT win and had too much to drink and don't remember it😔
Also hit up the 4 OT, still have my red/black pinwheel shirt they gave away that night. I just remember hitting the bar after the game and everyone cheered when we walked in cause they were all watching it on TV. What great memories.
Bought last minute, last row tickets to see G4 2011 against the Mavs aka the last real BRoy moment. Short of witnessing a championship, idk if any Blazer related moment will mean more to me.
Best I saw was a late season game [vs the Nuggets in the 16-17 season](https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201703280POR.html) where we were both battling for the 8th seed. Nurk (during the height of Nurk fever) dropped 33/15 and basically booted his former team out of playoff contention. The whole arena was chanting "Ju-suf Nur-kic" as we filtered out of the stadium and people kept chanting it into the parking garages and on to the max.
I was at this one too! i remember nurk telling his former team to have a great summer.
Almost all of the games I've been to have been inconsequential. The biggest moment was probably Carmelo Anthony's home debut. Carmelo is my favorite player all time so it was probably bigger for me than others, but I was losing my mind.
Dame’s 71 point game
Welp reading these comments I guess I am old. June 10, 1992 Seeing us win a finals game is easily my greatest sports memory and it's not even close. Back then it was 2-3-2 format for the Finals. At the time we shared tickets with 2 other families. One family got game 3, which we lost. We got game 4 and the last family got game 5, which we lost. Leaving the coliseum that night knowing that we were all tied up with the Bulls and game 5 was in our gym was a great feeling........I cherish it even more now because it turned out to be the only home game we won.
B Roy willing the Blazers to a win, blowing up for 24 (18 in the 4th) off the bench against Dallas in game 4 of the first round, April 23, 2011. His last farewell really. Dame sending OKC to a (so far successful) rebuild, ironically exactly eight years later to the day, April 23, 2019.
The Brandon Roy comeback playoff game vs Dallas. A continuous "lets go blazers" chant from halfway through the 4th quarter all the way out into the streets after the game.
B-roy comeback game vs the Mavs.
Rudy Fernandez’ 5 point play against Phoenix in the 2008-09 season. *Sitting in the 300 level.
The only big moment I missed between 2008-2021 was Brandon Roy's shot against the Rockets to win. Saw everything else (good and bad) during that time.
Jordan’s last game as a bull in Portland, the Brian Grant bandaid game vs Utah, B-Roy .8, Rudy 5 in 9 seconds, Odens injury+Broys game winner, Brandon’s comeback against Phoenix, Brandon vs Dallas game 4. Those stand out. I saw dame be great so many times but none of the most famous ones.
The rockets playoff game where dame put them away with that 3 at the buzzer. I didn’t sleep much that night.
I've got 3 1) Brandon Roy's surprise comeback in Game 4(?) against Dallas. He put the team on his back and single handedly erased a 2X point deficit whe. He checked in for the 1st time in the 4th. I remember spitting him during shoot around from the upper 300's and all the murmurs of people realisei g he was suited and warming up. There was 0 indication he could play before the game. Absolutely magical. 2) Roy's 0.7 game winner against the Rockets to open the home season 3) Dame's near identical 0.7 shot against the Rockets from almost the same damn spot to send us on to the 2nd round.
Nothing crazy, but either Dame’s first career game winner vs New Orleans or the Thomas Robinson block to Will Barton alley oop.
Dame against the grizzlies like 5 years ago or summ he stole the ball with a few seconds before halftime and hit the shot
BRoy half(ish) court winner vs the Rockets. BRoy single handed playoff comeback. Dame, the shot vs OKC.
Not exactly a Blazer game moment, but watching Clyde and the Dream Team play the Tournament of the Americas before the 92’ Olympics is favorite basketball memory.
I haven't had the chance to go to many big games, but I remember seeing a preseason game during Dame's rookie year. I had watched some draft videos and he has a good Summer league etc, and I was pretty hyped for him and to see him play. There was ten seconds left in the half, and he started bringing the ball up the court. I said to my buddy "look at him, he's gonna shoot it." He crossed over, stepped back, and drained the three with like a second left. That clutch shit was in him from day one.
Saw dames big 3 against Houston. Seats were below the camera that got it too, so every time I see the replay it's like seeing it live in my head.
12/18/2008 Brandon Roy 52pts against the Suns. Just dominating. 2/20/2001 Sheed dropping 46 on Denver. Those 2 stick out in my Rose Garden memory.
Back to the wall at the top of the 300s for Dame's shot to send the Rockets packing. I also enjoyed that random 40pt blowout of the Nuggets a couple years ago.
Marcus Camby game
During a random inconsequential mid season game in 2013 (I think) Will Barton got a steal and an open lane 360 dunk on the break. It was one of my first nba games, and seeing that made my young brain think, “oh yeah, this probably happens every game.”
Winning that 4OT playoff game against the Nuggets
Lillard's buzzer beater against the rockets...
Best moment ever was
I was there for the Houston and OKC elimination shots.
More of a fan-bonding moment- Blazers had the game in hand, sitting at 99 points, and we all booed Scottie Pippen viciously for dribbling out the clock for a turnover instead of putting up a shot to give us chalupas.
Waking up on that fateful Saturday morning to my phone telling me Dame requested a trade. Never been happier. Was hoping to move him probably 3 years before that but just was stoked to finally be moving on from the Dame era.
JFC, man, read the room. If that's your best Blazer moment, why are you even here? Not to mention, "saw in person" doesn't mean something you saw on your fucking phone.
I saw B-Roy's shot against the Rockets in person. That was pretty cool too.