Jacked Ramsays: A Portland Trail Blazers Podcast

Rafael Barlowe of NBA Draft Big Board and LockedOnNBA joins Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague to take a look what the Portland Trail Blazers are facing leading up to the NBA Draft night. Together the trio hits on potential prospects that could be within in range for the Trail Blazers at pick #7, starting with the first high profile name attached to the Blazers by their first workout - G-League Igni...

On this edition of Jacked Ramsays Live, hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague discuss the second big name the  Portland Trail Blazers  have been linked to nationally, OG Anunoby. Joining Deandre Ayton, Anunoby is a player that answers a lot of questions the Blazers have been asking for years about their frontcourt - can he defend? Does he have size? Is there any semblance of offense in his game?...

Thursday evening, Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported that Mike Schmitz - Draft Analyst for ESPN, formerly of Draft Express, was being hired by the  Portland Trail Blazers  to become an Assistant GM. Since the dismissal of Neil Olshey in December for creating a hostile working environment, multiple changes have taken place. Proceeding Olshey’s dismissal, Chris McGowan resigned his position as Pres...

Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague take a look at the news, notes, rumors and more coming out of NBA Combine Week. Which teams might look to move up? Who's going first overall - Jabari Smith Jr or Chet Holmgren? Will the Saramento Kings move back? Which players may have moved into the lottery? Zach Lowe on the Blazers possibly targeting Deandre Ayton and how using the 7th pick to trade for Jerami Gr...

Join Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague for the Jacked Ramsays NBA Draft Lottery, live watch party kicking off at 5 PM PST! The room will be hosted on Watch Playback’s platform where everyone will be synced up on the same feed and able to converse in real time. All you need is the login of your TV/Streaming/Cable provider to be verified and you’re good to go. During the show they’ll be discussing, d...

Join Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they breakdown the big news of the day: Joe Cronin has been appointed the General Manager of the Portland Trail Blazers. In entirely unrelated news, Brian Windhorst of ESPN said on the Hoop Collective podcast today that the Portland Trail Blazers might be a landing spot for Klutch Sports client and upcoming free agent of the Chicago Bulls, Zach LaVine. In o...

Join Danny Marang live with special guest Ricky O’Donnell of SBNation as they take a look at the upcoming NBA Draft . Togethe r they’ll preview Ricky’s big board - evaluating where he deviates from others, who he really believes in and who he’d rather stay away from. Does he have a surprise #1 overall pick? Does he buy into Chet Holmgren long-term or does someone like Paolo Banchero or Jabari Smit...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague on this episode of Jacked Ramsays Live. They’ll take a look at the upcoming group of free agents as the official offseason moves a step closer. Danny and Brandon will also discuss the impact of Kevin Durant and the  Brooklyn Nets  getting swept by Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown and the  Boston Celtics . What does that do to the landscape? Could big changes i...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague live as they take on as many questions as they can in this one-hour live show! Following the  New Orleans Pelicans ’ playoff berth, the  Portland Trail Blazers  lost a second lottery pick heading into the 2022  NBA Draft  and the 2022 offseason “Great Reshaping” of the Blazers roster. Without that additional lottery pick, where do they go? Could a deal s...

Hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague are joined by the  NBA Draft  Expert for Sports Illustrated, Jeremy Woo, on Tuesday afternoon’s live show to take a look at all things draft related for the  Portland Trail Blazers . We’ll hit on Jeremy’s Big Board, who he has rated as the best prospects, and whether or not his best prospect matches with Portland’s best fit. If Portland lands a top three pick...

Join Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague with special guest, Sean Highkin of Bleacher Report to run down the exit interviews today by the  Portland Trail Blazers . Interim GM Joe Cronin was joined by Coach Chauncey Billups and players Josh Hart and Anfernee Simons as the only members of the franchise made available after their season came to an end Sunday evening, with a record of 27-55 missing the p...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they answer your questions live on stream! Whether you’re interested in the NCAA Championship game’s remaining  NBA Draft  eligible players like Ochai Agbaji or Armando Bacot, we’ll make sure we cover all the angles of tonight’s game as well as what NCAA players made the biggest push up the ladder during the tournament, who fell down and what the Mock...

It’s a live show of Jacked Ramsays with hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague - and special guest, Trail Blazers reporter Casey Holdahl! We’ll talk with Casey about the ups and downs of covering this season. From opening expectations through the rough patches of the early year into Damian Lillard’s injury and forthcoming interview which he detailed to Casey just how bad it had been over the years...

It’s a live Jacked Ramsays mail bag with Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague. Fresh off the heels of the most incredible tank job (perhaps the best in NBA history) by the  Portland Trail Blazers , who strung together three of the most awe-inspiring losses in franchise history, including twice to the  Houston Rockets  and an overtime masterpiece that saw them snatch a loss from the jaws of victory aga...

It’s a live Jacked Ramsays Mail Bag wher hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague will tackle as many questions about the Portland Trail Blazers as they can in an hour! With Shams Charania revisiting the Jerami Grant to Portland 5-alarm fire, there’s a lot of questions about how, why, when and more — that a deal between the Trail Blazers and the Detroit Pistons would get done and what it would mean...

Join Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they take on your Portland Trail Blazers, NCAA Tournament and NBA Draft questions live! Whether it’s looking at how Chet Holmgren stacks up in the NBA vs NCAA, his immediate or future fit and profile - we’ve got you covered. We’ll take a look at today’s bracket busting loss by Iowa and Keegan Murray’s (very, very, very likely) last game in college and wheth...

The Portland Trail Blazers get the tank back on track in Atlanta, dropping the first game of a 5-game trip for the Blazers, 122-113. While the Blazers are clearly leaning heavily on the idea of ping pong balls at the NBA Draft lottery, they’ve now figured out that losing by historic margins doesn’t actually improve their odds and as such have found ways to make the past couple games a bit more com...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they take a detour from the tank festival that is the  Portland Trail Blazers  and dive into the world of the  NBA Draft  and upcoming NCAA Tournament. The guys are taking your questions about who to watch, where to look, and ultimately which ways the Blazers may go in the coming months as they pursue talent to add to Damian Lillard, Anfernee Simons,...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they marvel at the futility on display from the Portland Trail Blazers tonight against the Utah Jazz. A game that saw the Blazers go down by 50 points, not clear 50 points through three quarters and ultimately lose by...checking calculator, carry the 7...A LOT, OK? This comes on the heels of the worst 5-game stretch in NBA history with regards to marg...

Jake Fischer of Bleacher Report joins host Danny Marang for a special Jacked Ramsays where they take a look back over the transition for the Portland Trail Blazers from the beginning of the season until now and then look ahead to what’s next. Setting the table of where and when discussions around CJ McCollum began, the possibility that Portland could have received Lonzo Ball and Josh Hart last sum...

Join Danny Marang as he takes a look at the Portland Trail Blazers’ 3rd straight loss of 30 points or more with Wednesday night’s defeat coming at the hands of the Phoenix Suns, 120-90. Long story short, this is what you can expect for the remainder of the season. The Blazers don’t have the talent (purposefully) right now to compete. It’s very clear that the team is looking to get the best odds po...

Join hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they answer as many of your questions as they can, live! Questions about how Keon Johnson projects as a player for the immediate and the long term? How do you approach the draft and who do you view as the top prospect in this class? Beyond that, how do you see the Blazers utilizing their picks? Trade them both? Keep both? Send one out and keep the oth...

Join Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague as they take a look at Sunday night’s game between the  Portland Trail Blazers  and  Denver Nuggets  that saw the Blazers fall 124-92. All in all, it was a very similar tale to previous outings with the starting unit setting the tone: getting out in transition and playing a revved up version of the new Blazers. However, their shooting waned (even from Anfernee...

On a special 1 On 1 edition of Jacked Ramsays, Danny Marang is joined by Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons to take stock of where... well everything sits as it pertains to this version of the Portland Trail Blazers. Anfernee talks about the backing of the Trail Blazers organization and how after much change, he’s finding himself in new and exciting territory. The discussion shifts to what Simons...

With the NBA All-Star break right around the corner, hosts Danny Marang and Brandon Sprague are switching it up a bit: instead of a taped mailbag show, we’re getting a live mailbag show! On this live show, the guys will dive into as many questions as they can about the immediate future of the  Portland Trail Blazers . What makes a better team, one with top end talent or one with pieces that fit to...