It’s been a while! This week Tara was joined by Dustin and Sage from Holy Backboard, one of Rip City’s longest-running podcasts. We talked about how we still have no idea what the Blazers are going to do, speculated about what might have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked and then talked about some potential Blazer draft picks. They had to be separated on AJ Griffin and Bennedict Mathurin. Despite swearing I wouldn’t get attached, I'm now attached to Ousmane Dieng and Tari Eason.

2:10 Celebrating 300 Episodes of Holy Backboard, remembering the early years

9:50 How about the off season so far? Total mystery!

11:10 Who knows what the Blazers are going to do? 

12:40 Encouraging move hiring Mike Schmitz

13:50 Any significance to Blazers being named in so many rumors?

16:30 Trying to separate rumors from real possibilities

18:30 The team chose a direction. Was it the right one?

20:30 What would have happened if the Blazers hadn’t tanked?

27:10 Note of course that players were not playing to lose

29:00 It's still theoretical what Josh Hart and Justise Winslow could do on this team

29:50 Could they have been at least good enough to knock out the Pelicans and get their pick? 

35:25 It was so easy to climb on board and ride to tank town.

36:10 Holy Backboard Draft coverage history

40:20 AJ Griffin

50:25 Shaedon Sharpe

53:40 Bennedict Mathurin

55:50 Ousmane Dieng

59:30 Most ready to contribute right away?

1:00:00 Keegan Murray

1:04:20 Tari Eason

1:08:00 Jalen Duren