We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast

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!

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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

This week we were joined by one of the busiest people we know, Rip City Radio's Chris Burkhardt. You probably know him as producer and host of Blazer's Game Day, Courtside Mondays, The 5th Quarter and the 19:77 Podcast. He also co-hosts the Trailcasters if - when!- they ever put out a new episode!

We heard his basketball origin story, stories from being on the road with the team, thoughts on signs of improvement and so much more!

2:00 Icebreaker: What are we rooting for in the Playoffs?  Lakers early exit, Blazer cuties making a deep run, rooting for fun teams with players we like

6:00 The basketball origin story of Chris Burkhardt

11:30 Blazers connection

15:00 Traveling to cover the team

27:00 Interacting with players

33:00 How to avoid asking bad questions

36:30 Differences between radio and tv

43:00 What are we watching for and hoping for as the season wraps up?

55:00 Question from listener: keanu_reevesbooks

1:07:00 Why are there so many Keanu Reeves accounts on Bluesky?

1:09:30 Takes: March Madness and College Athletics are fun! (And bring marching bands to NBA games), not ready to let go of the hustle board, can’t wait for Paige Bueckers to join the WNBA

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. Kind of like Twitter but it's not. There are different channels with different topics and you can join in where you want, and ignore the stuff you don't want to see. Give it a try! You can also find us on BlueSky @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

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

This week we are recapping a special event we were invited to! With a few other Trail Blazers fans, we got to meet and talk to Assistant GMs Andrae Patterson and Mike Schmitz. Both were a delight of course! We’re not reporting, we’re just vibin’ about what we heard, how we interpreted it, and what stuck with us. Topics include team building, player improvement, and leadership. 

We also ate Ranch Pizza in the club level and we might never go back to our regular seats.  

Plus! We answer listener questions about leadership, surprise s and the coach

1:00 Audra was a courtside kid! 

7:00 Deni Avdija is huge

9:00 Adding "Oops I Did it Again" to the playlist

11:00 “Chalk Talk” event with Andrae Patterson and Mike Schmitz

16:20 Overall impressions of the event

21:00 Team building thoughts

22:00 Players they talked the most about

24:30 Value and opportunity

31:40 Not expecting big changes in the off season

40:00 Young veterans

43:00 Leadership (and question from @BasketballJones)

45:00 What player has surprised us the most (From @Hecubus72)

52:00 Rose spots a ref

56:10 Question from @BrandonMullen regarding coaching

1:05:00 Phoenix is run like its run by an eight year old

1:07:00 Tara’s take: its no fair that Club level are the only ones who get access to Ranch Pizza

1:10:00 Rose’s take is a personal health update. 

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. Kind of like Twitter but it's not. There are different channels with different topics and you can join in where you want, and ignore the stuff you don't want to see. Give it a try! You can also find us on BlueSky @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

NBA Chef Alli (@chefalli in Instagram) joined us to tell us all about what her life is like as an NBA chef! We had so much fun learning about how she got her job, how she works with her clients and what its like being trusted to feel players and their families.

1:00 Ice breaker: What is your jersey number?

5:00 Alli's basketball origin story

11: 00 Alli's chef origin story

13:00 (Game) day in the life of an NBA Chef

16:30 What happens when a player is traded

19:00 Nutrition and cookies

27:00 Learning how to cook family foods

35:00 How much do NBA Players eat? It depends

38:00 Playoffs are intense for people around the team too

48:00 Thoughts on this season's Trail Blazers

55:00 Viewing the team through the lens of the the team and the family vs as fan

1:06:00 Takes: Hotdogs are a sandwich, Real Housewives of Seattle should have an NBA adjacent housewife, Get Diana Taurasi and Evan Turner to comment on basketball

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. Kind of like Twitter but it's not. There are different channels with different topics and you can join in where you want, and ignore the stuff you don't want to see. Give it a try! You can also still find us on Bluesky: @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

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

We're not saying we're goofing off or slacking for the rest of the season, it just seemed like the right time to draft Former Blazer Cuties.

Who are Blazer cuties? We're glad you asked! Tune in to find out and then tell us what Blazer Cuties would you draft for your Blazer cutie dream team?

3:00 Catching up on the last week, beating bad teams, Suns have big problems and it wasn’t Jusuf Nurkic, is Jusuf Nurkic going to have an acting career? Gooooolden warriors are a zombie team that is eating everyone’s brains. Paul George is taking time off of podcasting so he can concentrate on winning. 

13:00 Why don’t we get much of Shaedon and Scoot playing together? 

22:00 Blazer Cutie draft (starting with loose-definitions)

Rose: Ed Davis, Thomas Robinson, Rodney Hood, Allen Crabbe, Shabazz Napier, Steve Blake

Tara: Greg Oden, Al Farouq Aminu, Derrick Jones Jr., Will Barton, Andre Miller, Jake Layman

1:02:00 Interview with Senator Ron Wyden about Blazer Legend Bill Walton and the WNBA

1:16:00 Takes: Tara: if you are tired of talking in circles about the Blazer, go watch a Bravo show. Rose: The most moves doesn’t mean the best moves.

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. Kind of like Twitter but it's not. There are different channels with different topics and you can join in where you want, and ignore the stuff you don't want to see. Give it a try! You can also still find us on Bluesky: @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

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

1:00 Sweatshirt takes, or, what to order online at 4am

10:00 Lakers game: could be worse!

17:00 Charlotte Game: most relaxing viewing in memory

25:00 Sidebar where we wonder who is the best former Charlotte Hornets player?

30:00 What signs of development are we seeing?

35:00 We have a talk about Shaedon and who are the Blazer's guards of the future?

54:00 Who was the last Blazer center who regularly got the block and the ball?

1:05:00 Takes - some requests for media and Matisse Thybulle and post all-star break player haircuts

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

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. You can also find us on BlueSky @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding

Ever wonder about that guy who jumps into the middle of a Trail Blazers game to give us stats and chop it up with the rest of the broadcasting crew? We did too!

So we reached out and Tara got to talk to Tom Haberstroh (https://bsky.app/profile/tomhaberstroh.bsky.social) - about his basketball journey, how he got into covering sports, what kinds of things he's learned about Rip City since he started covering the Blazers and which Portland restaurant won him over . . .

All this and so much more!!

(This was such a fun talk and we covered so much! Go follow Tom but also please follow Hoops4ALS on Instagram and Bluesky to support the work they do to help people with ALS)

1:00 On the excellence of the Blazers Broadcasting crew

7:00 1977 Championship game tv rating

10:00 Tom's basketball origin story

18:00 Sports coverage origin story

20:00 Covering basketball through an analytics lens

27:00 Favorite player (and moms)

36:30 What he has learned about #RipCity since he started to cover the team

43:00 Time machine Blazer team he would cover

50:00 Question from Rose: What new or revised NBA statistic do you think would add to our understanding of the modern game?

59:00 Al Farouq Aminu talk!!

1:00:30 Crunch Time talkThe cutest intro/outro music by Eric Peterson (@shoozumoops)

Join us on Discord! It's a place where we can share our love for the Blazers, talk about games, and get to know other Blazer fans. You can also find us on BlueSky @wehaveatake, @tcbbiggs @roselharding