A personal essay about Portland fans, the city, and the Moda Center
Jamie Cooper of Dime takes an entertaining look at his experience covering the Trail Blazers in the post season. He calls it The Sight of the Gallows. It's a long essay with an introduction and three chapters.
In the Introduction he writes about the tenacity of the Portland fans from his viewpoint of having covered Portland the last two years each time they won a desperation game four:
On both occasions, the Blazers played with a sense of urgency that had been inexplicably absent in each of the previous three games.