We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast
Two women who love the Portland Trail Blazers talk about the games, players, teams, mascots, fans, uniforms, and history that make Rip City great. With Tara Bowen-Biggs and Rose Harding. Serious fans, fun takes. We have a take and so can you.
Episodes
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=sharing&ouid=117146787304348480959)
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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 some behind the scenes stories about th...
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's growth
36:15 Blake "Hot Wheels&...
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 minutes on Olympics to open it up!
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!
9:00 Welcome back Scoot Henderson a...
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
36:00 Rip City United Season ticket holder event
56:00 Question...
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 increased pressure
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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 rebounds and communication)
24:00 Rob...
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
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 falling down and quickly getting back up....
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 probably got you covered! Plus, a few rema...
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 Williams' ally oops, Kris Murray&#...
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 remember!
1:00 Checking in on the last week...
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 Clingan's hands
1:28:00 Takes!
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 improved as a coach?
1:20:00 Takes
Cu...
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, Lauren Chaney
58:00 Draft and rookie s...
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 🍉🍎🌺⛓️⏰ @paintnpdx.bsky.social - Stream ...
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 Conditions For the Redeem Team (long l...
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