The First Week Of The Season, A 2-1 Trip And The NBA Cup Begins On The Brief Case, Episode 176 cover art

The First Week Of The Season, A 2-1 Trip And The NBA Cup Begins On The Brief Case, Episode 176

The First Week Of The Season, A 2-1 Trip And The NBA Cup Begins On The Brief Case, Episode 176

Listen for free

View show details

About this listen

Send us a text

On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Portland Trail Blazers going 3-2 in the first week of the 2025-26 regular season

• The early season play of Jerami Grant, Deni Avdija and Jrue Holiday

• The Trail Blazers doing all the things in the first five games that they said they were going to do during training camp and preseason

• Enduring the highs and lows of a new style of play

• Portland finishing the first week first in steals, second in pace, third in shot attempts, fourth in three-point attempts, sixth in defensive rating and eighth in offensive rebounds

• Jerami Grant putting up historic early-season numbers off the bench

• Getting bested by the LA Clippers due to a difficult second half

• Bouncing back to defeat a shorthanded Lakers team going away

• Donovan Clingan having his best game of the season versus his "vet" Deandre Ayton

• Getting up big versus the Jazz before having to grind out a win in the fourth quarter (thanks in large part to Jrue Holiday)

• The NBA Cup group stage begins on Friday versus the Denver Nuggets at Moda Center

• Robert Williams III is upgraded to questionable

No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.