The Trail Blazers’ 50-year anniversary season is temporarily on pause as the NBA goes on hiatus to slow the spread of COVID-19. During that break, Blazer’s Edge is counting down the top 100 Blazers: players, executives, and other influencers who made the franchise what it is today.
No. 1 | Bill Walton
Games Played with Blazers: Regular Season 209, Postseason 21
*PTS: 17.1 | REB: 13.5 | AST: 4.4 | FG%: 51.0%
*Statistics are pulled from a player’s time in Portland
Joined Club: May 1974 selected 1st overall in the 1974 NBA Draft
Departed Club: May 1979, departed in free agency to the San Diego Clippers
Place in History:
If you were to pick a single season to represent all of what the Portland Trail Blazers are, have been, or aspire to be, it would undoubtedly be the championship-winning campaign of 1976-77.