![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the dispersal draft, with their 14th pick, the Trail Blazers selected Maurice Lucas, a proficient power forward with rebounding prowess and exceptional defending abilities. As a result, several ABA teams were dissolved and their players were distributed among the remaining NBA teams. But then, in 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA. ![]() Predictably, the team failed to qualify for the playoffs in its first six seasons, winning just 170 games out of almost 500 during this period. In other words, get ready for some NBA history! The glorious 1976-1977 seasonĪlongside the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Clippers, the Portland Trail Blazers entered the NBA as a feeble expansion team in 1970. Truth be told, the last one would have probably been forgotten by everybody but a few thousand teary-eyed “blazermaniacs” had it not been vividly documented by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam in “The Breaks of the Game,” one of the best sports books ever written. The 1979-80 NBA season was historic for three reasons: the inauguration of the three-point line, the debuts of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, and the demise of the ideal Portland Trail Blazers team. ![]()
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