We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast

Rose and Tara wrap up their thoughts on the 2025-26 season, talk about the new Fire season and announce the winners of the 2025-26 WHAT Awards, the only awards that matter!

The season is wrapping up, the Blazers are in the play in as the 8th seed! We caught up about our early thoughts on the new ownerships, answer listener questions, and threaten to withhold the WHAT Awards if they don't take care of business with Sacramento. (They did, here is the ballot: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOLS994wBT_UuvQooK033nXf818cS2NzKgnYQY1zAEShDF9g/viewform?usp=shar...

Announcing the 2026 WHAT Award Nominations! First we caught up with Conor Bergin of Blazers Edge then he joined us to announce the nominees for the Most Important Awards of all, the 2026 WHAT Awards! 1:00 Catching up with Conor: Coach is arrested, Deni Avdija is an All Star, Donovan is a beast, Tiago Splitter is holding it down, Vít Krejčí arrives . . . It was great catching up with him to get som...

We catch up on how we are feeling about the team now vs expectations we had in the beginning of the season. We also ask about what we have been surprised about? Then we do a deep dive into Blake "Hot Wheels" Wesley (a nickname we should all get behind!) 00:10 Expectations vs reality 6:30 Half time adjustments who knew we'd ever come to love the 3rd quarter? 10:15 Donovan Klingan'...

Its All Star Break and we're talking about Portland Trail Blazer's FOUR participants in the festivities: Donovan Clingan and Yang Hansen in the Rising Stars, Deni Avdija in the All Star Game and of course, or special guy, the man of the people, storyteller and the heart of RipCity, Damian Lillard, THREE time 3 Point Contest winner! Plus - a few more Blazer tier rankings, takes and a few mi...

Scoot Henderson and Blake Wesley are back! We're thrilled to be able to talk about these speedy guards and how they are impacting the game already a few games in. Plus! Today we're revealing our definitive (for us) ranking system for former Blazers! Learn more about the tiers we've defined (for ourselves) and see if they work for you! 1:00 Goodbye to Duop Reath and hello Vít Krejčí! 9:...

7:00 Deni Avdija All Star Votes 11:00 Impressions and feelings about two recent articles about Deni https://www.nba.com/news/the-athletic-deni-avdijas-unexpected-rise-to-nbas-new-breakout-star-and-israels-greatest-player-ever https://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/2026/01/the-cost-of-deni-avdijas-new-stardom-he-can-no-longer-avoid-questions-about-israel-and-gaza-bill-oram.html 36:00 Rip City United Se...

Not gonna lie, the vibes are high! Thanks for the skeets @linssenp.bsky.social‬⁠ , @jamesgameboy.bsky.social‬⁠ , @madoccassia.bsky.social‬⁠ , @hecubus01.bsky.social !! :30 Post laker win glow 3:15 Atlanta game and Jrue Holiday’s return 6:45 What is the “end of the bench” anymore anyway?  8:30 We think about Scoot Henderson’s return at least once a day 15:00 Shaedon is consistent even under increas...

Friend of the pod, Rip City Remix correspondent and anchor of the group chat, catrenzer joined us today to talk about if what we are seeing from the Blazers is real, then she talks to us about what she is watching about the Remix this season. :30 WHAT about the friends we made along the way 5:00 The blazers are on a winning streak(s!) 11:00 Is this real? Donovan Clingan, Deni Avdija, defense, (and...

2:03 Recapping the night honoring the 1999-2000 team. 19:00 Dunk update Then, We had a talk about YOUR takes. What's on your mind, Takers? 28:25 Dave’s not here man‬ ‪@pacnwce.bsky.social‬ Take:  finding out Deni can produce like a star is the most important thing to happen to the Trail Blazers future since Cronin took over.  It’s Deni’s world, we’re just living in it 32:35 Octdesertlover‬ ‪@o...

First we talk about how we’re feeling after a rough stretch of games for the Portland Trail Blazers. Injuries suck, waiting sucks, but watching a team lean into its identity, and watching young players make the most of their unexpected opportunities always warms our hearts. We talk about how Deni Avdija, Jeremi Grant, Duop Reath and Toumani Camara are keeping the team afloat while carefully fallin...

One of two players on two-way contracts who are getting lots of playing time time season, Caleb Love was a polarizing figure throughout his college career. We did a deep dive to find out who he is, where did he come from and what was his path to the NBA? Of course, we love Love, and hope that you will too!

After catching up on the week that was the perfect trajectory for a developing team, we have a talk about Blazer Cuties in the league - guys who once played with the Blazers who made a positive impression in RipCity. We found Blazer cuties all over the league, in the G League and playing around the world. If you're wondering what happened to players from Blazers circa 2020-24 we've probabl...

Its that best time of year, Awards Season! We're announcing the categories for the only awards that count in Rip City, the prestigious WHAT Awards. Find out what Blazer players (and former players) have to do to get an award this season, the tweaks we've made, and old favorites that have returned. All this plus we answered Takers' questions and got to talk about tattoos, pizza, Rob Wil...

After checking in on the latest news with the team, we go back in time to reminisce about Blazer Road Trips. Thomas Robinson finds a snake in a locker, half the team gets stuck in an elevator, Carmelo Anthony joins the team in New Orleans, Gary Tent Jr makes everyone hold it while staging a photo shoot in the bathroom . . . these memories and more! Tell us what Blazer Road Trip stories you remembe...

SO much going on in #RipCity! 4:00 The Portland Trail Blazers are so competent! 8:00 Player's seem happy 12:00 Did you hear? Coach got arrested! 22:00 Beating the Gooooooooolden Warriors 24:00 We love having Jrue Holiday on the team 33:30 The Blake Wesley experience (may it continue soon!) 42:00 Kris "The Competent" Murray 51:30 Jerami Grant we hardly knew you! 1:08:00 Donovan Clinga...

We were joined by the hardest working man on the Blazers beat, Chris Burkhardt of RipCity Radio and the 19:77 Podcast, to talk Trail Blazer's pre-season, our hopes for Yang Hansen and co., and to kick off the 2025-26 playlist. We think you'll think its a banger! 00:01 :00 Intro, catch up, Blazer preseason 00:22:00 Mark Mason appreciation 00:25:00 Play list 00:55:00 Coaching - has Chauncy i...

Today We Had A Talk about Jrue Holiday, Portland Trail Blazers' most experienced player. He's got a huge list of accomplishments, a ton of experience, a fierce love of family and community and we could not be more excited for him to be a Portland Trail Blazer. 00:00 Intro 9:30 Preseason recap (so far) 30:00 All about Jrue Holiday 31:00 Family and early life 49:00 College, meeting his wife,...

We had a lot of great listener questions and we have a question for you: what should we call listeners of the We Have A Take Podcast? Get you ideas in by telling us on Bluesky: @wehaveatake @tcbbiggs and @roselharding Cutest intro/outro music ever by @shoozumoops ‪Team Mom‬ ‪@tcbbiggs.bsky.social‬ : Which Blazer cutie will you miss the most? - Anonymous ‪The Tortured Florist Department 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰‬...

Tara and Rose catch up on the Kawhi Leonard news, the enshrinement of Carmelo Anthony and the 2008 Redeem Team in the Basketball Hall of Fame, plus, who was on the Blazers 2019-20 Roster (it never stops surprising us) and this season is brought to us by Deandre Ayton!1:00 Kawhi Leonard and who else is getting sweet deals? 13:00 Basketball Hall of Fame, Carmelo Anthony and the Team That Set The Con...

Lots of exciting things happened this summer and we're talking about our favorites 5:35 Chalk Talk part 2 Lots of mentions of Jerami Grant Scoot will be Scoot Coaches on Suits - not going to happen  32:00 Top stories of 2025 00:35:00 Damian Lillard returns 00:38:Damian Lillard gets a no trade clause 00:39:00 Team has been sold and we can get on with our lives 00:51:30 Drafting Yang Hansen is g...

We could not be happier to be talking about the biggest free agent pick up the Blazers have ever signed. He picked us. He could have gone 28 different places, but Damian Lillard wanted to come home. We also talk first impression of Yang Hansen and how things are going with summer league, Portland has an WNBA team and we answer listener questions. Thank you to Jason, Basketball Jones, Project Hanse...

We're back to announce the winners of the 2025 WHAT Awards! Get all caught up with us and find out who won the Most Prestigious Awards In All The Land! 5:25 Did the Blazers inspire the Pacers to make it all the way to the finals? 14:23 Why do weird things always happen with the Lakers? 16:15 Rose has thoughts about Love Island 21:30 Listener questions 53:45 WHAT Award Announcements: Best Acces...

Its the episode everyone in the locker room has been waiting to drop! Announcing our 2025 WHAT Award Nominees! We will follow up soon with info on how to vote! 1:00 Coach extension 6:00 Teams firing their coaches late 9:00 At least we’re not [insert unlucky franchise here] 17:30 Controlling what we can control 22:00 Best Accessorizer: Deande Ayton Scoot Henderson Jerami Grant Jabari Walker 34:00 M...

This week we were joined by one of the busiest people we know, Rip City Radio's Chris Burkhardt. You probably know him as producer and host of Blazer's Game Day, Courtside Mondays, The 5th Quarter and the 19:77 Podcast . He also co-hosts the Trailcasters if - when!- they ever put out a new episode! We heard his basketball origin story, stories from being on the road with the team, thoughts...