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1988–89 Portland Trail Blazers season

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Arena
  
Memorial Coliseum

Television
  
KOIN

Record
  
39–43 (.476)

1988–89 Portland Trail Blazers season

Head coach
  
Mike Schuler Rick Adelman

Place
  
Division: 5th (Pacific) Conference: 8th (Western)

Playoff finish
  
West First Round (eliminated 0-3)

The 1988–89 season was the 19th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 39–43, eighth in the Western Conference, qualifying for the playoffs for the seventh consecutive year.

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The team was racked with dissension and posted a 25–22 record before coach Mike Schuler was fired in mid-February. Then-assistant coach Rick Adelman was promoted to replace him on an interim basis. After the Blazers reached the 1989 NBA Playoffs, Adelman was made the head coach on a full-time basis.

In the 1989 NBA Playoffs, the Blazers were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs for the fourth straight year, losing three straight to the eventual Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers.

Clyde Drexler and Kevin Duckworth were both selected to the 1989 NBA All-Star Game.

Season standings

z - clinched division title y - clinched division title x - clinched playoff spot

West First Round

(1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Portland Trail Blazers: Lakers win series 3-0

  • Game 1 @ Great Western Forum, Los Angeles (April 27): Los Angeles 128, Portland 108
  • Game 2 @ Great Western Forum, Los Angeles (April 30): Los Angeles 113, Portland 105
  • Game 3 @ Memorial Coliseum, Portland (May 3): Los Angeles 116, Portland 108
  • Last Playoff Meeting: 1985 Western Conference Semifinals (Los Angeles won 4-1)

    Awards and honors

  • Clyde Drexler, NBA All-Star
  • Kevin Duckworth, NBA All-Star
  • References

    1988–89 Portland Trail Blazers season Wikipedia