Order by the year each player joined the Portland Trail Blazers. You place all 52 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
Sort these Trail Blazers by the year each one first came to Portland. Almost every card prints the player's position beneath his name. The timeline begins with one player in place and his year showing. Each new card asks you to choose a gap among the players already down. Choose well and the year is revealed; choose badly and the player is shifted to his true spot while you give up one of three lives.
Portland arrived as an expansion team and won over its city fast, and the deck follows that from the early Blazermania days through the Finals runs, the turbulent stretch that followed and the backcourt-led teams of recent memory. A striking number of cards say center, so that label won't sort much for you. Players from the quieter rebuilding seasons are the ones most likely to land in the wrong place.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
Here are 28 of the 52 cards you might be dealt, with 24 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
































