The Portland Trail Blazers being the regular season by hosting the Oklahoma City Thunder Wednesday night at the Moda Center. To prepare, Joe Freeman of The Oregonian and I, Casey Holdahl of ForwardCenter.net, recorded the 23rd edition of the Rip City Report, which is now available for your listening pleasure.

In this edition, Joe and I discuss the rookie contract extensions given to Meyers Leonard and CJ McCollum, Thomas Robinson not being extended, the rotation going into the regular season, our thoughts on the matchup against an injury-riddled Thunder team and answer a few questions. We also throw in a couple food recommendations and a discussion genetically modified chicken. If nothing else, all the the mics worked this time, so that alone makes it a vast improvement over last week’s episode.