Founded in 1970, the Portland Trail Blazers are probably best known for their 1976-77 season, during which center Bill Walton and first-year coach Jack Ramsay led their team to its first NBA Championship over Julius Erving and the Philadelphia 76ers. That season became the stark contrast to the team's terrible 1979-80 season, which was chronicled in a book by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist David Halberstam titled The Breaks of the...Continue Reading