Portland Trailblazers 50th Anniversary Clyde Drexler Screen Print by Danny Haas x Phenom Gallery

Phenom Gallery continues to its awesome line of officially licensed NBA screen prints with this killer tribute to the Portland Trailblazers’ 50th Anniversary Season and one of the franchise’s biggest stars, Clyde “The Glide” Drexler! This print focuses on Drexler’s time on the Trailblazers during the 1980s.

Portland Trailblazers 50th Anniversary Season Clyde “The Glide” Drexler by Danny Haas is an 18”x24” signed and numbered 6 color screen print. Limited to just 250 pieces, this poster will be first available at the Moda Center team store, Rip City Clothing Co., on Friday, December 20th, for $50.

Portland Trailblazers 50th Anniversary Bill Walton Screen Print by Stolitron x Phenom Gallery

Phenom Gallery continues to its awesome line of officially licensed NBA screen prints with this epic tribute to the Portland Trailblazers’ 50th Anniversary Season and one of the franchise’s biggest stars, Bill Walton! This print focuses on Walton’s time on the Trailblazers during the 1970s.

Portland Trailblazers 50th Anniversary Season by Stolitron is an 18”x24” signed and numbered 6 color screen print. Limited to just 250 pieces, this poster will be first available at the Moda Center team store, Rip City Clothing Co., for $50. A very limited number of printer proofs are available now online at PhenomGallery.com for $60.

NBA Pop! Sports Series 1 Vinyl Figures by Funko

The NBA Playoffs are really heating up and now’s your chance to immortalize the 2012 season with these cute, chunky vinyl figures of your favorite basketball player! Whether you’re a Heat, Knicks or Lakers fan, there’s definitely a figure for you in Funko’s NBA Pop! Sports Series 1. What’s really amazing is there are ten figures in this first wave of NBA Pop!, making it Funko’s largest single release to date. NBA Pop! Sports Series 1 includes Lebron James, Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Pau Gasol, Rajon Rondo, Kevin Love, Lamarcus Aldridge, Derrick Rose and Mr. Linsanity himself, Jeremy Lin.

The NBA Pop! Sports vinyl figures feature one point of articulation, stand 3.75” tall and come packaged in a full color displayable window box. These figures are available now in stores everywhere, but you can save yourself a trip to your local toy store by ordering them online from Entertainment Earth for $9.99 each here.

NBA Pop! Series 1 Concept Artwork by Funko

Funko has teamed with MINDstyle (yes, that MINDstyle) to produce a line of officially licensed NBA Pop! vinyl figures. Series 1 includes Lebron James, Blake Griffin, Kevin Durant, Carmelo Anthony, Pau Gasol, Rajon Rondo, Kevin Love, Lamarcus Aldridge and the reigning MVP, Derrick Rose. While these figures look awesome, The Blot has just one question…where’s the beef? As in where’s Kobe Bryant!?! Pau’s great, but the Lakers fan in me needs a Kobe Pop! vinyl figure immediately. I guess I'll just have to wait until Series 2.

As a University of Texas alum, I also think it’s pretty cool to see two fellow longhorns included in this release, Kevin Durant and Lamarcus Aldridge. I guess they can’t say we’re just a football school anymore! Funko also leaked the preliminary artwork for a future Jeremy Lin NBA Pop! vinyl figure. This would make a pretty sweet New York Comic-Con 2012 exclusive wouldn’t it?

NBA Pop! Series 1 will begin shipping in late April to ensure they reach you in time to cheer on your favorite team during the playoffs!

The NBA Starts Tonight!

The 2008-2009 NBA season kicks off tonight on TNT and The Blot is pumped. The ‘08-‘09 season should be a great one for the NBA with a ton of interesting storylines set to play out and a bunch of familiar faces in new locations and new uniforms.


I’m just counting down the minutes until tip off of the Los Angeles Lakers’ first game against the Portland Trailblazers at 10:30/9:30 central. It should be a great game and I’m excited to see the Lakers with a healthy Andrew Bynum and the Blazers’ amazing young talent with a healthy Greg Oden.