1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season
NBA professional basketball team season
The 1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 25th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. The Trail Blazers' 25th season was marked by change, as this was the team's final season in which they played their home games at the Memorial Coliseum.
Season summary
Off-season
The Trail Blazers had the 17th overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, and selected shooting guard Aaron McKie out of Temple University. During the off-season, the team hired P.J. Carlesimo as their new head coach.
Regular season
Early into the regular season, the Trail Blazers traveled overseas to Yokohama, Japan to play two games against the Los Angeles Clippers at the Yokohama Arena. In the first game on November 4, 1994, the Trail Blazers were the road team and defeated the Clippers by a score of 121–100, in front of 14,229 fans in attendance; Clyde Drexler led the team with 26 points, while Clifford Robinson finished with 22 points, and Rod Strickland contributed 17 points and 7 assists. In the second game on November 5, the Trail Blazers were the home team and defeated the Clippers by a score of 112–95, in front of 14,239 fans in attendance; Drexler led the team with 41 points, and made all four of his three-point field-goal attempts, while Strickland posted a double-double of 23 points and 14 assists.
Under Carlesimo, and with Terry Porter only playing just 35 games due to an ankle injury, the Trail Blazers got off to a 6–6 start to the regular season in November, and later on held a 25–20 record at the All-Star break. At mid-season, the team honored Drexler's request to be traded to a contender, sending him along with three-point specialist Tracy Murray to the defending NBA champion Houston Rockets in exchange for Otis Thorpe; before the trade, Drexler averaged 22.0 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game in 41 games, but was not selected for the 1995 NBA All-Star Game in Phoenix, Arizona. The Rockets would go on to win their second consecutive NBA championship, defeating the Orlando Magic in a four-game sweep in the 1995 NBA Finals; it was Drexler's first ever championship.
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