Portland Trail Blazers Milestones

Order these Portland Trail Blazers franchise moments by the year they happened. You place all 25 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

Portland Trail Blazers Milestones
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Order these Portland Trail Blazers franchise moments by the year they happened. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How the Portland Trail Blazers history timeline works

Trail Blazers history is broken into milestone cards here, and each one shows a headline with a brief description beneath it. Your job is to place them in order of the year they happened. The first card is already on the line, year showing. For each new card, pick the gap that fits; you'll see its year if you're right, and you'll lose one of three lives if you're wrong, though it still lands in the right place.

Portland's history is full of what-ifs, and the deck has plenty of them: draft decisions, injuries, and playoff runs that came up just short. The franchise has one championship, and much of the deck is about the long chase for another. Famous buzzer-beaters and franchise guards turn up across eras, and the descriptions are worth reading for the opponents and coaches they mention.

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.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Played their first season Portland joins the NBA as an expansion team
  • Geoff Petrie shares Rookie of the Year The franchise's first star guard is co-honored as top rookie
  • Drafted Bill Walton The UCLA champion center is taken first overall
  • Hired coach Jack Ramsay The coach who would deliver a title takes over the bench
  • Won the NBA championship Walton leads a Rip City run past the 76ers for the franchise's only title
  • Walton wins MVP The center is named league MVP the season after the title
  • Drafted Clyde Drexler Clyde the Glide from Houston is taken 14th overall
  • Drafted Sam Bowie over Michael Jordan The team picks a center second overall, passing on a Carolina guard
  • Drafted Terry Porter A future All-Star point guard is taken late in the first round
  • Hired coach Rick Adelman The coach who would reach two Finals takes over
  • Reached the NBA Finals Drexler's Blazers fall to the Detroit Pistons
  • Won a franchise-record 63 games The team posts the best regular season in its history
  • Reached the NBA Finals again The Blazers fall to Jordan's Bulls
  • Rose Garden opens The team moves into a new arena
  • Acquired Scottie Pippen The six-time champion arrives to chase a title in Portland
  • Blew a Game 7 lead to the Lakers A fourth-quarter collapse in the conference finals ends the season
  • Drafted Aldridge and Brandon Roy Two future All-Stars arrive via draft-night trades
  • Drafted Greg Oden first overall The team takes the injury-plagued center ahead of Kevin Durant
  • Returned to the playoffs A 54-win season behind Brandon Roy ends a long postseason drought
  • Drafted Damian Lillard The Weber State guard is taken sixth overall
  • Lillard wins Rookie of the Year The rookie guard is a unanimous top-rookie selection
  • Lillard's buzzer-beater beats Houston A series-winning three with under a second left ends the first round
  • LaMarcus Aldridge departs The All-Star forward leaves in free agency for San Antonio
  • Lillard's 37-foot series-winner A wave-goodbye buzzer-beater ousts the Thunder en route to the conference finals
  • Traded Damian Lillard The franchise icon is dealt to Milwaukee after 11 seasons

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