The Portland Trail Blazers got national airtime this week on the Jimmey Kimmel Show, but probably not in the way they wanted. Actor Jay Ellis, from the HBO series “Insecure” spent his college days in Portland working for the Blazers as a PR Intern. This coincided with the “Jail Blazers” era, which Ellis remembered with a mixture of fondness and horror as Kimmel elicited details in the interview seen here:
Here’s the transcript of the conversation:
Jay Ellis: I interned for the Portland Trail Blazers when i was in college.