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City Cast Portland

Ben McBee

Just like professional athletes, serious fans 

. Maybe you have to wear your beat-up Blazers hat (the one with 

) or you won’t take a sip of your beer until the Fire drill a three (our money’s on Bridget Carleton).

Now, we don’t want to throw you off your game, but we do have some fun suggestions to spice up your traditions on the way to the Rose Quarter to watch basketball.

🍸 For a touch of class and skyline views, grab a drink at 

🏟️ Tell the Moda Center how good it looks at 30. There’s been a lot of talk lately (

We don’t want to throw you off your game, but we do have some fun suggestions to spice up your traditions on the way to the Rose Quarter to watch basketball.

5 pre-game traditions on the way to the Moda Center

Side Quest: Pre-Game Routine

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Sara Campos has been working to make Portland’s robust skateboarding scene more welcoming to all. Campos joined the City Cast Portland podcast to talk about those efforts and their work with Queer Skate PDX 

to push the city to build a new skate park on the West Side

. We also asked them for their list of skate parks that have been most important to them:

“It's a queer- and trans-owned skate park and I'm also just really good friends with the owner, AJ [Waters]. AJ let us take a bunch of their obstacles that are movable to a random spot and entrusted us with all of that. It really helped to be able to create a new skate space somewhere temporarily.”

It’s “a very central location in the middle of Portland, but also it's a very big space, which is nice. The blacktop is really smooth. It just has a special place in my heart. It was really seeing different identities and different people in the skate community show up for each other.”

“It was skater-maintained, skater-started. It has become such a cool meeting point for community. There's obstacles for every single level of skating, so you don't really get intimidated too much by what's there, because there's always something for everyone, which is really cool.”

Skate Parks of the Future 

Which Portland, Oregon, Skateparks Are Most Welcoming to All

The Most Inclusive Skate Parks in Portland

Find the best of everything that Portland has to offer.

Portland’s Best

Portland's Best

 knows the Trail Blazers. She’s becoming a regular guest on City Cast Portland, where she chatted last month about the 

.

We asked Dia Miller for a list of her favorite Blazers of all time.

 “He was the first player I ever really followed as a kid and really shaped a lot of my Blazer's fandom – even to the point where when he was traded, I was a Rockets fan for a couple years. I liked watching him dunk. I liked how he played. I liked who he was off the court. He always just seemed very kind and reserved. In an era of basketball where the stars were very loud and in your face, there was just something kind of cool [about Clyde].”


 was the player that I picked up after Clyde left, because then I needed a new favorite player. I loved him as a kid. I'm not sure that I really had the ability to know who was the best player. I just picked the people that I liked watching, and I liked watching Brian Grant."


 “I think Dame is making a strong, solid case for being the best Trail Blazer to ever wear the uniform. He is obviously an incredible player; to watch his game is amazing. But then on top of that, he's just a really good human. He loves the city. He loves the team. He loves the fans. He gives back a lot, and he's just the kind of person on and off the court that you just really want to root for.”

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