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A Four Billion Dollar Pass: The Trail Blazers Are For Sale

Josephine Varon (she/her), Intro Writer | May 31, 2025

The Portland Trail Blazers, the only National Basketball Association (NBA) team in the Pacific Northwest, is being sold. The last time the Blazers were sold was to Paul Allen in 1988. Allen was the co-founder of Microsoft and the owner of the National Football League team, the Seattle Seahawks, who unfortunately passed away of lymphoma at 65-years-old, in 2018. After his death, the ownership of the...

Is the NBA draft rigged?

Harper Wicker-Lenseigne (he/him), Managing Editor | May 27, 2025

The NBA draft lottery has just been decided and the Dallas Mavericks have, against all odds (literally; they had a 1.8% chance), earned the first overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft. This means that the Mavericks will have the option to pick up Duke freshman and college basketball superstar, Cooper Flagg in the draft. It’s very likely that they do, considering Flagg is one of the most attention-grabbing...