In Garfield High alum Brandon Roy's national coming out party, he didn't have a great statistical game, shooting 6-23. But anyone who watched the Blazers 89-79 win instead of just looking at the boxscore saw that he was clutch when it mattered. The turning point was a 18-4 Blazers run at the beginning of the second half. During the run, the Blazers scored 10 baskets. Roy either scored or assisted on 8 of them. It......

Portland's Greg Oden, the #1 pick in this year's NBA draft, is out for the season before playing his first NBA game after exploratory surgery found extensive damage in his right knee. Oden hurt the knee--and we're not making this up--getting up off a couch. The Blazers have scheduled a news conference for 1:30 pm today. We'll update this post if anything else comes out before then. UPDATE: Here's the official statement from the Blazers:An......

#1 Pick in the 2007 NBA Draft: Blazers! #2 Pick in the 2007 NBA Draft: Sonics! Holy poosticks! This couldn't have worked out any better. The Blazers will pick Greg Oden, that's a no-brainer, leaving the Sonics with no choice but to take Durant (unless, of course, they ruin everything by taking that Chinese guy). Durant's a much more dynamic player than Oden--if there were a guy who could save the franchise, it's him. Sonics......

--A Seattle lawyer is officially in on the Menu Foods Ltd sue-a-thon. Local pets blog Itchmo Seattle is claiming a vastly different number of dead pets across the country than we've seen in the MSM, by the way. Which is closer to the truth: The P-I's 13 or the blog's 1,000? --Seattlest had a few science teachers in our high school days that should have been carried out of the building with an administrator......