Last night the Portland Trail Blazers played the first game of their 2025-26 preseason schedule, heralding the start of another year of Portland basketball. In honor of the event, we have this question from the Blazer’s Edge Mailbag.

Dave,

A personal question here. What are you looking forward to at the start of the new season? It doesn’t have to be deep analysis unless you want it to be. I just want to hear what excites you most about this year. Or is it still exciting? Looking forward to it.

Jon

It’s a good question. It’s funny. Next year will be my 20th year doing this. Good God, that’s a long time. Brandon Roy was a rookie when I started. It seems like just yesterday. I can remember the Greg Oden draft clearly. I know exactly what I was doing when we heard about each of his major i

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