After checking in on the latest news with the team, we go back in time to reminisce about Blazer Road Trips. Thomas Robinson finds a snake in a locker, half the team gets stuck in an elevator, Carmelo Anthony joins the team in New Orleans, Gary Tent Jr makes everyone hold it while staging a photo shoot in the bathroom . . . these memories and more! Tell us what Blazer Road Trip stories you remember!

1:00 Checking in on the last week of Trail Blazer Basketball

15:00 Blazer Cutie Alert! Trendon Watford with his first career triple double

19:00 Memorable Blazer Road Trips

23:00 May 2014 Snake in the Locker Trail Blazers Greeted By Snake In San Antonio Locker Room

2029 January 11 2017 Diversion due to snow

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/18456746/portland-snowstorm-leaves-trail-blazers-cleveland-cavaliers-scrambling-play-scheduled-game

36:00 Feb 2019 Blazers get Stuck in an Elevator

Stuck in the Elevator | Rip City Stories 

https://www.blazersedge.com/2019/2/26/18241860/portland-trail-blazers-stuck-elevator-meyers-leonard-evan-turner-enes-kanter

https://www.nba.com/blazers/forwardcenter/team-recounts-harrowing-elevator-experience-boston

47:00 November 2019 - Carmelo Anthony joins the Blazers on road trip

https://andscape.com/features/carmelo-anthony-this-is-a-second-chance-portland-trail-blazers/

51:00 July 10 2020 Gary Trent Jr Fashion Shoot

Trail Blazers' Gary Trent Jr. has photoshoot in airplane bathroom - Sports Illustrated 

57:00 December 19 2022 Damian Lillard becomes all time leading scorer

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35289184/damian-lillard-becomes-trail-blazers-all-leading-scorer

Damian Lillard passes Clyde Drexler to become Portland Trail Blazers' all-time leading scorer 

1:03 February 2023 - Stuck on the Tarmac/Where the Bleep is Tristan?

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co_f3KiAeE0/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY%3D

SO much going on in #RipCity!

4:00 The Portland Trail Blazers are so competent!

8:00 Player's seem happy

12:00 Did you hear? Coach got arrested!

22:00 Beating the Gooooooooolden Warriors

24:00 We love having Jrue Holiday on the team

33:30 The Blake Wesley experience (may it continue soon!)

42:00 Kris "The Competent" Murray

51:30 Jerami Grant we hardly knew you!

1:08:00 Donovan Clingan's hands

1:28:00 Takes!

We were joined by the hardest working man on the Blazers beat, Chris Burkhardt of RipCity Radio and the 19:77 Podcast, to talk Trail Blazer's pre-season, our hopes for Yang Hansen and co., and to kick off the 2025-26 playlist. We think you'll think its a banger!

00:01 :00 Intro, catch up, Blazer preseason

00:22:00 Mark Mason appreciation

00:25:00 Play list

00:55:00 Coaching - has Chauncy improved as a coach?

1:20:00 Takes

Cutest intro/outro music ever by @shoozumoops

Today We Had A Talk about Jrue Holiday, Portland Trail Blazers' most experienced player. He's got a huge list of accomplishments, a ton of experience, a fierce love of family and community and we could not be more excited for him to be a Portland Trail Blazer.

00:00 Intro

9:30 Preseason recap (so far)

30:00 All about Jrue Holiday

31:00 Family and early life

49:00 College, meeting his wife, Lauren Chaney

58:00 Draft and rookie season, 76ers team, journey through the NBA

1:05:00 Reflections on what we learned about him

1:15:00 Philanthropic works

1:28:00 Wrap up and odds and ends

1:36:00 Takes

Sources

(remember, some of the linked archived articles were accessed via the public library - go through your local library and use your library card to access hundreds of free resources!)

• 2019 SoCal Basketball Hall of Fame Toya DeCree

• POINT WELL MADE: Sixers' All-Star guard Jrue Holiday is a product of a tight family unit 

•  From boy to man to all-star: The 76ers Jrue Holiday has grown into one of the NBAs top point guards.

• Impact for Influence: Jrue and Lauren Holiday 

• Jrue Holiday is an Incredible Person On and Off the Basketball Court | Sloane Knows! Podcast

• Jrue Holiday is Like Family to Andre & Evan | Point Forward Podcast S1: E8

Fun bonus content

• Jrue Holiday as Modell's Employee Selling His Own Jersey

• 2024 Tenacious D Award WInner

We had a lot of great listener questions and we have a question for you: what should we call listeners of the We Have A Take Podcast? Get you ideas in by telling us on Bluesky: @wehaveatake @tcbbiggs and @roselharding Cutest intro/outro music ever by @shoozumoops

• ‪Team Mom‬ ‪@tcbbiggs.bsky.social‬: Which Blazer cutie will you miss the most? - Anonymous

• ‪The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰‬ ‪@paintnpdx.bsky.social‬ - Stream of consciousness: Which Blazer is most into Halloween? Nate Bjorkgren deep dive? Or has that been done already? 8:00 start times: yea or nay? What’s the number one thing you would want to change in a major renovation to Moda?

• ‪Brandon Mullen‬ ‪@brandonmullen.bsky.social‬ - Do you think the Blazers are looking to trade Scoot? I got fileted in the comments for suggesting they might!

• ‪Jason‬ ‪@hecubus01.bsky.social‬ - Will this season be a trick or a treat?

• ‪Keanu_reevebooks‬ ‪@jamesgameboy.bsky.social‬ - The vibes seem unbelievably good so far and everyone seems to be getting along great, in particular the young core built over the last three seasons (them going to watch Yang at summer league was so nice). I'm wondering, do Dame and Jrue feel left out?

• Blevins Country, Nurkic Road‬ ‪@shoozumoops.bsky.social‬ - What do you hope to see from Jrue this season on the court?

• ‪Twenty Thousand Thorns‬ ‪@20000thorns.bsky.social‬ - Yang Hansen is a Cinnamon Bun. Discuss.

• ‪zaphod b‬ ‪@semicolonoverdrive.bsky.social‬ - umm, I have a question. With Scoot out, who is our backup PG?

• ‪Basketball Jones 🏀🦁‬ ‪@shawnjohn.bsky.social‬ - How great of an impact do you think nearly all games being streamed in China will have on the minutes Yang Hansen plays? Obviously he has to play up to his NBA potential but one has to think there will be a little pressure to encourage tapping into that market by extending his minutes.

• ‪Basketball Jones 🏀🦁‬ ‪@shawnjohn.bsky.social‬ - Do you think fans are putting too much importance on the Grant/Sharpe starting conundrum or do you think it's warranted?

Tara and Rose catch up on the Kawhi Leonard news, the enshrinement of Carmelo Anthony and the 2008 Redeem Team in the Basketball Hall of Fame, plus, who was on the Blazers 2019-20 Roster (it never stops surprising us) and this season is brought to us by Deandre Ayton!1:00 Kawhi Leonard and who else is getting sweet deals? 13:00 Basketball Hall of Fame, Carmelo Anthony and the Team That Set The Conditions For the Redeem Team (long live the 2004 Olympic team)31:00 What we'll be watching for this season: Will Shaedon Sharpe play defense? 37: 00 25 point quarters40:00 Who closes games? 42:00 Jrue Holiday defense and who guards the best player on the other tea49:30 How many minutes does Donovan Clingan play54:00 What is Jerami Grant doing? 1:05:00 Takes!Cutest Intro Outro music ever by @shoozumoops

Lots of exciting things happened this summer and we're talking about our favorites

5:35 Chalk Talk part 2

Lots of mentions of Jerami Grant

Scoot will be Scoot

Coaches on Suits - not going to happen 

32:00 Top stories of 2025

00:35:00 Damian Lillard returns

00:38:Damian Lillard gets a no trade clause

00:39:00 Team has been sold and we can get on with our lives

00:51:30 Drafting Yang Hansen is going to have a big marketing impact

1:01:10 Tiago Splitter joining the coaching staff

1:11:50 Duop Reath got a guarantee 

1:16:00 Honorable mentions

You can find us on Blue Sky at these handles: @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

The cutest intro/outro music by Eric Peterson (@shoozumoops)

We could not be happier to be talking about the biggest free agent pick up the Blazers have ever signed. He picked us. He could have gone 28 different places, but Damian Lillard wanted to come home.

We also talk first impression of Yang Hansen and how things are going with summer league, Portland has an WNBA team and we answer listener questions. Thank you to Jason, Basketball Jones, Project Hansen and Gavi HaCohen Cult Expert‬ for your great questions!

@shoozumoops.bsky.social‬)

We're back to announce the winners of the 2025 WHAT Awards! Get all caught up with us and find out who won the Most Prestigious Awards In All The Land!

5:25 Did the Blazers inspire the Pacers to make it all the way to the finals?

14:23 Why do weird things always happen with the Lakers?

16:15 Rose has thoughts about Love Island

21:30 Listener questions

53:45 WHAT Award Announcements: Best Accessorizer

58:00 Most Improved Blazer

1:04:00 Most Valuable Blazers

1:08:00 Social Media Play of the Year

1:10:00 Josh Hart Memorial Award: Blazer Legend

1:18:00 Bench Celebrator Man of the Year

1:23:00 Takes

Thanks for listening!

Thanks to @shoozumoops for the cutest theme song ever!

Its the episode everyone in the locker room has been waiting to drop! Announcing our 2025 WHAT Award Nominees! We will follow up soon with info on how to vote!

1:00 Coach extension

6:00 Teams firing their coaches late

9:00 At least we’re not [insert unlucky franchise here]

17:30 Controlling what we can control

22:00 Best Accessorizer:

• Deande Ayton

• Scoot Henderson

• Jerami Grant

• Jabari Walker

34:00 Most Improved Player

• Toumani Camara

• Shaedon Sharpe

• Deni Avdija

• Scoot Henderson

59:00 Most Valuable Blazer

• Deni Avdija

• Mike Schmitz & Andrae Patterson

• Deandre Ayton

• Toumani Camara

1:10:00 Blazer Legend

• Damian Lillard scholarship at PSU

• Jusuf Nurkic - so many reasons!

• ET On the Broadcast

• LaMarcus Aldridge spilling the tea about Olshey

1:20:00 Social Media Play of the Season

• Bluesky - for being there when we needed them!

• Blazer Social for peeks behind the scene and for going to Bluesky

• Jerami Grant supporting local businesses on Instagram

• Conor Bergin for surfacing the "Two Hands For Safety" information

1:28:00 Celebrator 

• Anfernee Simons

• Deandre Ayton

• Donovan Clingan

• Scoot Henderson

• Honorable Mention: Rob Williams