“Rip City Revival” Documentary (Story of the early 90’s Portland Trail Blazers)
A documentary I produced and directed that tells the story about the early 90’s Portland Trail Blazers. Featuring interviews with Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter and many more.
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My team forever
So clyde, rome and Terry had rings. Didn't Cliff get a ring, too?
We honestly thought we would beat the bulls?
Portland is a small town clyde? đ
too bad clyde had to have the knee surgery after the olympic dream team run. he was never the same after
RIP my big bro Wayne Cooper! Also RIP Kevin Duckworth, Jerome Kersey and Cliff Robinson.
Fantastic. Thanks for the upload from a 90s season ticket holder.
Thank you for this upload. Brings back a lot of childhood memories
God, I loved that team! As a 21 yr old who had just moved to Oregon in '89 from Maryland, I didn't even know who the Trail Blazers were. When I realized they had just aquired Buck I was instantly hooked. I had grown up as a fan of his when he was a Terp. Even through all the heartbreak over the yrs. I am still a die-hard Blazer!!
I ain't gone lie ..I'm a pistons fan.. when Detroit had to play them in the finals in 1990 I was worried about them ..honestly I thought they had no shot ..that's how good they were ..
This was my favorite to date. Completely robbed by the nba. In my youth, I realized that the nba is $$$ driven. The nba couldnât even bother to pronounce the Willamette River properly during the playoffs.
As a Jazz fan who watched those playoff battles and it sucked that we lost. But that Portland team looking back on it all these years they were a fun team watch!
This is the team that I grew up with, listening to the games on the radio.
Honestly, I wish the Portland team would've been brutality honest in this documentary!
really got in depth
Like the Jordan draft and how drexler never gave a fuck about Portland
What it was really like Living in Portland away from their family's
Their true feels about losing to the pistons and the bulls
like what was really going on behind closed doors
As a Portland fans, WE didn't get any of that!
How much is a duck worth đ
I remember the Blazers were so popular after the 1977 title that they would show their games on what they called closed circuit television . At a large like theater on a movie screen and it held several thousand people and it was sold at nightly as well. But getting a ticket to an actual game was almost impossible . It wasnât like today where every game is on tv.
Portter was like BJ off tge bulls Drexler was like MJ from the west only lacked the mental toughness that MJ had and Buck was very similar to Horace Grant
Better be glad Magic was not on that lakers team in 92. He was the blazers nemesis for real.
That 91 team might have beat the bulls. It would have been blazers second title run bulls first. I would have like to see that series.
I was born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Sonics and Blazers fan. Japanese-American, male, heterosexual, and a cat lover! In 1982-83, I HATED the Blazers, because they beat the Sonics! I HATE Boston (because I'm Japanese-American), the Lakers, Phoenix, and (because I'm Japanese-American) Utah. Good thing I took a break from the NBA, because it was Boston Lakers Boston Lakers, championship hogs! I became a DIE HARD Blazers fan in the 1989-90 Western Conference Finals, because I thought Terry Porter was such a great human being. I've been a die hard Blazers fan since 1990, which unfortunately means heartbreaks (1990-91, 1999-2000). When I was 18-22, and we played at dunk hoops at elementary school hoops, my favorite dunk to do was "Jerome Kersey over Dana Barros."
7:15 One of my all-time favorite Mark West highlights! My favorite Mark Olberding highlight, is Portland at Kansas City, Kiki Vandeweghe made a layup, and Olberding got called for a foul!
This is one of the legendary teams of basketball. This is one of the most complete and utterly superior basketball teams Iâve ever seen just on pure basketball.
As a kid in LA for the Showtime Lakers I saw the emergence of this team. Iâve always liked the Portland team for some reason and theyâve always given us fits. Some of the best games we played in the playoffs were against this 90s rip city team. These guys definitely deserve their flowers.
"Rip City" ? i thought this was about Rip Hamilton! LOL
This is my childhood. I was obsessed. So painful to think about the ones who are gone.
Amazing team.
Man I grew up a huge Knick fans during the whole Patrick Ewing era but as a fan of basketball I really liked watching that Portland team I hated that they lost to Detroit and Chicago but what really stoked me was the lost to the lakers in 91 I really thought that was their year . They was a fun team to watch
Brilliant docu, really enjoyed this video. Thanks, Lee
Have mercy here comes JEROME KERSEY!! Miss ya broâ€. U were special.
Maybe this doc will answer this question but why was their championship window so small. In 90 they werenât experienced enough. 91 theyâre upset by Magic. Of course Blazers would have lost to Chicago as they did in 92. Unfortunate timing for that team. For years under the Lakers thumb. And then MJâs reign. I liked that squad though. All good solid guys ya know.
Well in 92 the Lakers over achieved to even make the playoffs. I mean no Magic that wasnât really the Lakers that they beat. So Portland got the job done. But Mike was waiting.
Buck was a STEAL for the Blazers. I mean Bowie, which ya know sadly was nothin and 1 pick!?! Who wouldnât take that deal. Buck was a baller. đȘđŒ
âBlack donât crackâ Clyde still looks like a million dollars. Buck too and Terry.
That Portland team was super scary. They had it all.