Brooke Olzendam previously was the sideline reporter and host for Pacers games airing on FOX Sports Indiana.

Her final season in Indianapolis was with the 2013-14 bunch that reached the Eastern Conference Finals for the second consecutive year.

She’s doing well, out west and closer to home. And, after two years as a reporter and host on Comcast SportsNet, the Portland Trail Blazers hired her last summer to team up with Kevin Calabro and Lamar Hurd for every Trail Blazers television broadcast on CSN NW.

It was good to catch up with Brooke ahead of the Pacers and Trail Blazers playing twice over the next ten days.

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Topics Discussed:

* How’s life out west, and working for the Trail Blazers

* Emotion seeing her former team in town

* Working with Indy native Kevin Calabro

* Early story lines for the Trail Blazers