2010–11 Portland Trail Blazers season
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The 2010–11
2010–11 NBA season
The 2010–11 NBA season was the 65th season of the National Basketball Association . The 2011 NBA All-Star Game was played on February 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. The Dallas Mavericks defeated the Miami Heat in six games, 4 games to 2, to win their first NBA title, and...

 Portland Trail Blazers
Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the...

 season
was the 41st season of the franchise in the National Basketball Association
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada...

 (NBA).

Key dates

  • June 24 – The 2010 NBA Draft
    2010 NBA Draft
    The 2010 NBA Draft was held on June 24, 2010 at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The draft, which started at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time , was broadcast in the United States on ESPN. In this draft, National Basketball Association teams took turns selecting amateur...

     in New York City
    New York City
    New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

  • June 24 - Kevin Pritchard
    Kevin Pritchard
    Kevin Lee Pritchard is a retired American professional basketball player.- College career :Pritchard played college basketball for the University of Kansas, where he was the starting point guard on the Jayhawks team that defeated the Oklahoma Sooners for the 1988 NCAA Division I men's basketball...

     is relieved of his duties as general manager by owner Paul Allen
    Paul Allen
    Paul Gardner Allen is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates...

    .
  • July 1 – The free agency
    Free agent
    In professional sports, a free agent is a player whose contract with a team has expired and who is thus eligible to sign with another club or franchise....

     negotiation period begins
  • July 8 – First day NBA free agents can sign new contracts; Prior conditional free agent trades can be finalized
  • July 16 – First round draft picks become free agents if not given a required tender
  • July 19Rich Cho
    Rich Cho
    Richard "Rich" Cho is the general manager of the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the Bobcats, Cho was the general manager of the Portland Trail Blazers and the assistant general manager of the Oklahoma City Thunder...

     hired as general manager
  • July 23 – Last day to withdraw a qualifying offer to a restricted free agent without the player's consent
  • July 19Bernie Bickerstaff
    Bernie Bickerstaff
    Bernard Tyrone "Bernie" Bickerstaff is an assistant coach for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. Prior to the Trail Blazers, Bickerstaff was an assistant for the Chicago Bulls and Executive Vice President of the Charlotte Bobcats...

    , Bob Ociepka
    Bob Ociepka
    Bob Ociepka is an NBA assistant coach for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. He has served as coach within the NBA for eighteen seasons.-Early life:...

    , and Buck Williams
    Buck Williams
    Charles Linwood Williams , better known as "Buck", is a retired American professional basketball player and current assistant coach for the Portland Trail Blazers. He was well known for his rebounding ability and trademark goggles.Williams, 6 ft 8 in , ranks 13th all-time in NBA career rebounds...

     hired as assistant coaches
  • August 15 – Players waived on or after this date remain on waivers for 48 hours
  • September 6 – Second round draft picks become free agents if not given a required tender
  • October 1 – Last day to sign replacement player with Disabled Player exception if the player was injured from December 1 to June 30 and will be out for the season
  • November 1 – Last day to exercise option years on scale contracts; Last day contracts can be extended
  • December 15 – Players who signed a contract on or before September 15 can be traded

NBA Draft

Round Pick Player Position Nationality School/Club Team
1 22 Elliot Williams
Elliot Williams
Elliot Jerell Williams is an American professional basketball player with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association...

G Memphis
2 34 Armon Johnson
Armon Johnson
Armon Deshawn Johnson is a basketball player who was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers as the 34th overall pick at the 2010 NBA Draft. A point guard, Johnson played in college for the Nevada Wolfpack. Johnson signed with the Blazers in August 2010. On January 28, 2011, he was assigned to the...

G Nevada
Nevada Wolf Pack men's basketball
The Nevada Wolf Pack basketball program is a college basketball team that represents the University of Nevada, Reno. The team is currently a member of the Western Athletic Conference, which is a Division I conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association...


Roster

Depth chart

Pos. Starter Bench Reserve Inactive
C
Center (basketball)
The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

Marcus Camby
Marcus Camby
Marcus D. Camby is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He is a former Defensive Player of the Year during the 2006–07 NBA season, leading the league in blocked shots per game...

Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson (basketball)
Chris Johnson is an American professional basketball center with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association .In January 2010 he signed a contract with Turów Zgorzelec from Poland....

 
Earl Barron
Earl Barron
Earl Daniel Barron, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.-Career:...

 
Greg Oden
Greg Oden
Gregory Wayne Oden, Jr. is an American basketball player at the center position. Oden is a member of the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA....

 
PF
Power forward (basketball)
Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...

LaMarcus Aldridge
LaMarcus Aldridge
LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers. He is a , 240-pound power forward/center and is one of Portland's two team captains, with the other being Brandon Roy....

SF
Small forward
The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...

Gerald Wallace
Gerald Wallace
Gerald Jermaine Wallace is an American professional basketball forward for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA.- High school :Wallace attended Childersburg High School in Childersburg, Alabama, where he had a very successful career...

Nicolas Batum
Nicolas Batum
Nicolas Batum is a French basketball player with SLUC Nancy of the Ligue Nationale de Basketball. He is also under contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, and is expected to return to that team once the 2011 NBA lockout ends. The Blazers acquired his rights during the 2008 NBA Draft for the...

 
Luke Babbitt
Luke Babbitt
Luke Robert Babbitt is an American basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He played college basketball at the University of Nevada-Reno for two seasons before declaring for the 2010 NBA Draft following his sophomore year...

SG
Shooting guard
The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...

Wesley Matthews
Wesley Matthews
Wesley Matthews, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association . He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles...

Rudy Fernández
Rudy Fernández (basketball)
Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández y Farrés is a Spanish professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" tall shooting guard/small forward who is currently signed to the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, though he will play for Real Madrid until the current NBA lockout ends...


Brandon Roy
Brandon Roy
Brandon Dawayne Roy is an American professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association. He was selected sixth in the 2006 NBA Draft, having completed four years playing for the Washington Huskies. In 2009, he served as the team's co-captain, along...

 
Elliot Williams
Elliot Williams
Elliot Jerell Williams is an American professional basketball player with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association...

 
PG
Point guard
Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

Andre Miller
Andre Miller
Andre Lloyd Miller is an American professional basketball player, currently with the Denver Nuggets of the National Basketball Association.- College career :...

Patrick Mills
Patrick Mills
Patrick "Patty" Sammie Mills is an Indigenous Australian professional basketball player who plays as a point guard for the Xinjiang Flying Tigers....

 
Armon Johnson
Armon Johnson
Armon Deshawn Johnson is a basketball player who was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers as the 34th overall pick at the 2010 NBA Draft. A point guard, Johnson played in college for the Nevada Wolfpack. Johnson signed with the Blazers in August 2010. On January 28, 2011, he was assigned to the...

 

Salaries

As of October 26, 2010:
Player 2010–11 Salary
Brandon Roy $13,604,000
LaMarcus Aldridge $10,744,000
Gerald Wallace $9,500,000
Marcus Camby $8,453,250
Joel Przybilla $7,405,300
Andre Miller $7,269,264
Greg Oden $6,796,524
Wesley Matthews $5,765,000
Luke Babbitt $1,645,440
Sean Marks $1,288,549
Elliot Williams $1,254,720
Rudy Fernandez $1,246,680
Nicolas Batum $1,196,760
Fabricio Oberto $992,680
Patty Mills $937,195
Dante Cunningham $762,195
Jeff Pendergraph $762,195
Armon Johnson $473,604
Jarron Collins $75,121
TOTAL $70,808,457


Sources:
  • HoopsWorld: Blazers Salaries
  • HoopsWorld: 2010–11 NBA Rookie Scale

Season

|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 81 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 81 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 39.6 || .500 || .174 || .791 || 8.8 || 2.1 || 1.01 || 1.16 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 21.8
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| || 23 || 0 || 4.5 || .289 || .091 || .286 || 0.8 || 0.1 || .09 || .09 || 1.1
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| * || 1 || 0 || 1.0 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 1.000 || .0 || .0 || 1.0 || 0.0 || .0 || .0 || 2.0
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| || 80 || 67 || 31.5 || .455 || .345 || .841 || 4.5 || 1.5 || .85 || .61 || 12.4
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 59 || 51 || 26.1 || .398 || .000 || .614 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 10.3 || 2.1 || .68 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 1.56 || 4.7
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| * || 5 || 0 || 4.8 || .167 || .0 || .0 || 1.4 || 0.2 || .0 || .0 || 0.4
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| * || 56 || 9 || 19.8 || .433 || .000 || .711 || 3.4 || 0.5 || .70 || .57 || 5.1
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| || 77 || 2 || 23.2 || .372 || .323 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | .863 || 2.2 || 2.4 || 1.12 || .18 || 8.6
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 37 || 0 || 6.6 || .461 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | .455 || .579 || 0.9 || 1.1 || .08 || .03 || 2.6
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| * || 9 || 0 || 7.3 || .600 || .0 || .700 || 1.6 || 0.1 || .22 || .56 || 2.1
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 29 || 0 || 7.2 || .432 || 1.000 || .625 || 1.4 || 0.1 || .14 || .10 || 1.6
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 81 || 68 || 33.8 || .448 || .404 || .842 || 3.2 || 2.0 || 1.26 || .11 || 15.8
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 80 || 80 || 33.0 || .459 || .111 || .853 || 3.8 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 7.1 || 1.43 || .15 || 12.8
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| || 64 || 0 || 12.2 || .412 || .353 || .766 || 0.8 || 1.7 || .40 || 1.0 || 5.5
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 5 || 0 || 9.0 || .600 || .0 || .500 || 1.4 || 0.0 || .0 || .0 || 1.4
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| * || 31 || 9 || 14.4 || .618 || .0 || .565 || 3.9 || 0.4 || .16 || .45 || 1.8
|- align="center" bgcolor=""
| || 47 || 23 || 27.9 || .400 || .333 || .848 || 2.6 || 2.7 || .79 || .26 || 12.2
|- align="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| * || 23 || 15 || 35.7 || .498 || .338 || .767 || 7.6 || 2.5 || style="background:#D1210A;color:black;" | 2.00 || .65 || 15.8
|}
As of April 12.

* - Stats with the Blazers.

Weekly and monthly

  • Western Conference Player of the Week
    • January 17–23, 2011 – LaMarcus Aldridge
    • February 7–13, 2011 – LaMarcus Aldridge
  • Western Conference Player of the Month
    • February 2011 – LaMarcus Aldridge

Injuries and surgeries

  • December 5, 2009: Greg Oden
    Greg Oden
    Gregory Wayne Oden, Jr. is an American basketball player at the center position. Oden is a member of the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA....

     - broken left patella (suffered in 2009–10 season)
  • December 22, 2009: Joel Przybilla
    Joel Przybilla
    Joel Przybilla is an American professional basketball player. A 7'1" center, he last played for the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA.- High school career :...

     - dislocated right patella and ruptured patellar tendon (suffered in 2009–10 season)
  • November 4, 2010: Elliot Williams
    Elliot Williams
    Elliot Jerell Williams is an American professional basketball player with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association...

     - dislocated right patella; out for season

Trades

June 21, 2010
To Golden State Warriors
Golden State Warriors
The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...


  • No. 44 pick (  Jerome Jordan
    Jerome Jordan
    Jerome Jordan is a Jamaican professional basketball center. He currently plays for Slovenian club KK Krka.-Collegiate career:Jordan selected Tulsa over North Texas and Stetson, enrolling in the 2006–07 school year....

    )
    cash considerations
To Portland Trail Blazers
Portland Trail Blazers
The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the...


  • No. 34 pick (  Armon Johnson
    Armon Johnson
    Armon Deshawn Johnson is a basketball player who was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers as the 34th overall pick at the 2010 NBA Draft. A point guard, Johnson played in college for the Nevada Wolfpack. Johnson signed with the Blazers in August 2010. On January 28, 2011, he was assigned to the...

    )
  • June 24, 2010
    To Portland Trail Blazers
    Portland Trail Blazers
    The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the...


  • No. 16 pick (  Luke Babbitt
    Luke Babbitt
    Luke Robert Babbitt is an American basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA. He played college basketball at the University of Nevada-Reno for two seasons before declaring for the 2010 NBA Draft following his sophomore year...

    ) Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Anthony Gomes is an American professional basketball forward with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association....

  • To Minnesota Timberwolves
    Minnesota Timberwolves
    The Minnesota Timberwolves are an American professional basketball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . Founded in 1989, the team is currently owned by Glen Taylor...


    Martell Webster
    Martell Webster
    Martell Webster is an American professional basketball player currently a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA. The 6' 7" , 235 lbs small forward–shooting guard was nicknamed "The Definition" as a play on his surname , given to him by a personal friend...

    February 24, 2011
    To Portland Trail Blazers
    Portland Trail Blazers
    The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon. They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association . The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the...


    Gerald Wallace
    Gerald Wallace
    Gerald Jermaine Wallace is an American professional basketball forward for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA.- High school :Wallace attended Childersburg High School in Childersburg, Alabama, where he had a very successful career...

    To Charlotte Bobcats
    Charlotte Bobcats
    The Charlotte Bobcats is a professional basketball team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They play in the Southeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association. The Bobcats were established in 2004 as an expansion team, two seasons after Charlotte's previous NBA...


    Dante Cunningham
    Dante Cunningham
    Dante Cunningham is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Charlotte Bobcats. Dante was drafted in the second round of the 2009 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA...

     Joel Przybilla
    Joel Przybilla
    Joel Przybilla is an American professional basketball player. A 7'1" center, he last played for the Charlotte Bobcats in the NBA.- High school career :...

     Sean Marks
    Sean Marks
    Sean Andrew Marks is a New Zealand-American professional basketball player. He is the first native New Zealander to play in the NBA.-Basketball career:...

  • 2011 first-round pick
  • 2013 first-round pick
  • Cash considerations

  • Additions

    Player Signed Former team
    Wesley Matthews
    Wesley Matthews
    Wesley Matthews, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association . He played college basketball for the Marquette Golden Eagles...

    five-year contract for $34 million Utah Jazz
    Utah Jazz
    The Utah Jazz is a professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City, Utah. They are currently a part of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...

    Sean Marks
    Sean Marks
    Sean Andrew Marks is a New Zealand-American professional basketball player. He is the first native New Zealander to play in the NBA.-Basketball career:...

    Undisclosed New Orleans Hornets
    Chris Johnson
    Chris Johnson (basketball)
    Chris Johnson is an American professional basketball center with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association .In January 2010 he signed a contract with Turów Zgorzelec from Poland....

    Signed for rest of season Boston Celtics
    Boston Celtics
    The Boston Celtics are a National Basketball Association team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1946, the team is currently owned by Boston Basketball Partners LLC. The Celtics play their home games at the TD Garden, which...

    Jarron Collins
    Jarron Collins
    Jarron Collins is an American professional basketball player.-High school career:Collins and his twin brother Jason graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California...

    10-day contract Los Angeles Clippers
    Los Angeles Clippers
    The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

    Earl Barron
    Earl Barron
    Earl Daniel Barron, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.-Career:...

    Signed for rest of season Milwaukee Bucks
    Milwaukee Bucks
    The Milwaukee Bucks are a professional basketball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. They are part of the Central Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association . The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and currently plays at the Bradley Center....


    Subtractions

    Player Reason Left New Team
    Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Gomes
    Ryan Anthony Gomes is an American professional basketball forward with the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association....

    Waived Los Angeles Clippers
    Los Angeles Clippers
    The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association...

    Fabricio Oberto
    Fabricio Oberto
    Fabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto is an Argentine professional basketball player. At and , he plays as a center. With Liga Nacional de Básquet in his native Argentina, Oberto began playing professionally in 1993 and later played overseas with teams in Spain and Greece...

    Retired n/a
    Jarron Collins
    Jarron Collins
    Jarron Collins is an American professional basketball player.-High school career:Collins and his twin brother Jason graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California...

    10-day contract expired
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