Last week was one of those times when nearly every day covering the Portland Trail Blazers, something was going down either off the court or on.

If anyone knows what Greg Oden is going through, it’s Michael Redd.

Portland needed that win at Indiana. They needed that confidence boost.

And now they’ll need that and four Hail Mary’s to beat LeBron James and the Cavs on national television. But if the Blazers studied their game film properly, they’ll see how both Memphis and Houston got the job done against Cleveland, who has lost two-straight. So why not them?

I have no doubt in my mind that Dwight Jaynes' scoop on Jerryd Bayless asking out of Portland is more fact than fiction.

Here we go….more ammunition for speculation about Portland’s alleged unhappy and unhealthy locker room.