The Trail Blazers‘ new G League affiliate will be known as Rip City Remix, Portland announced in a press release.
“This is an exciting day for Rip City and the next chapter in Trail Blazers basketball,” said president of business operations Dewayne Hankins. “We are thrilled to launch this team in the North Portland community, with a name and brand inspired by our fans, culture and region. Rip City Remix games will be fun, family friendly, and accessible, and we look forward to seeing you on the court this upcoming season.”
The G League club is an “homage to the vintage era of the Portland Trail Blazers, and emulates the colors and an identity akin to the 1970s, which is the era the Trail Blazers were born,” per the release.
Rip City Remix will be coached by Jim Moran, with Danny Connors serving as general manager and Pooh Jeter an assistant GM.
Rip City is fad-term from a bygone era of Trailblazer basketball, and I wouldn’t want a team named the farting remix…
Family friendly means something totally different in Portland…
What does it mean in the backwoods?
I wouldn’t know
In a related story, the Trailblazers announced that they will roster the team with all the players they will be taking in as a result of the Damian Lillard trade…
How do you “roster” a team?
REMIX ???
REALLY ???
What are they thinking ???
Should have gone with Traverse or Equinox,
or some other Chevrolet SUV name to compliment “Trail Blazers”.
This is borderline offensive. Someone going to lose their job on this
borderline? feels like IM going to lose my mind.
Should have gone with a different name entirely this is just going to cause confusion.