Snoop Dogg, renowned as a Los Angeles Lakers fan, has been performing in Australia this past week. Whilst welcoming in the New Year in Adelaide, at the Summadayze Festival (Rymill Park), he represented recently fallen Portland Trail Blazers star Brandon Roy by wearing his jersey.

Wondering what Patty Mills has been doing since leaving the Blazers? Well, apart from successful stints in Melbourne and China, he's started a career with the Spice Girls.

It had to happen eventually, I guess..

Big Joel is getting a brand new Blazers-emblazoned bicycle custom-made.

Our main man Patty Mills is now on twitter -- with a new account (I think he may have lost his old password!). Follow him... if you do the whole tweeting thing.

As Patty Mills prepares to take on Argentina in Australia's friendly warm-up series, preparing for the World Championships, he and Nathan Jawai (Minnesota Timberwolves) and Ater Majok (UConn) went to a juvenile detention centre to give the kids some inspiration -- video including interviews.

This article, suggesting that the Blazers drop the relatively small contract of Greg Oden is further proof of how much of a joke that Bleacher Report site is.

What is worse: it is a listed source of "NEWS" on Google News. Incredibly frustrating to see stupid headlines like the one on this link, when you're searching for actual news. It is incredibly full of holes. If you agree, drop a comment on the article...

Fantastic letterpress prints of the Blazers players of '08-'09 by Sarah Moon.

This is a pretty cool old school ad. Why? Two reasons: it focuses on players that work hard rather than flashy dunks and secondly (and most importantly) it features Buck Williams!

A mixture of observation and statistical analysis suggests that Melo should not be an MVP candidate at all. What say you?

No, really. The air from B-Roy's respiratory system gets pumped directly into your Nike Air shoes -- that's what makes them so expensive. That, and Maria Sharapova's...

Look out people of Oregon -- there is a dangerous driver on the loose.

Some interesting statistical analysis on the unique situation the Blazers sit in during >100 and <90 point games.

Video here (just released by Nike) from the pre-season of Brandon Roy talking about his goals for the season and thoughts on how that is headed.

Nicolas Batum's shooting percentages across the board in this short season are at historic levels. Sure, he is unlikely to maintain it, but this article takes a look at the company he would be in should he continue like this.

This is the inspirational and completely untrue story of Hasheem Thabeet's turbulent rookie reason with the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Any similarity to persons living or dead is highly unlikely, but the per 36 minutes stats are real.

A great feature with Bill Walton, which addresses a wide-range of issues. The feature, from NBA on CBS is in three parts and features a 1980 interview with Hot Rod Hundley, before going onto a Walton 1986 interview by Bill Russell and then Walton's 1993 Hall of Fame enshrinement.

Andrew Bogut is very close to passing quite a few of Luc Longley's "records" in terms of scoring and rebounding in the ranks of Australians that have played in the NBA.

This was during a Sarajevo All-Star game back as he was about to join the Bulls. Check out the Jordan homages.

Article in the Daily Astorian.

UPDATE: it appears the D-League has taken down the video due to its poor quality visuals. I'll replace it as soon as it's up, unless someone else does.

Patty Mills is interviewed about his return to the Idaho Stampede, his potential return to the Blazers and about the Australian Boomers.

This is what really happened in that exchange between Bayless, Roy and Miller during the Memphis game.

Ok. It was only 5 minutes of action, but there are a whole stack of basketball fans in Australia obsessing over Patty's arrival in the NBA... clearly the writer of this recap is one of them ;)

Lots of photos, words and video. In fact, it'll probably take you longer to look it than Mills was on the court.

38 points, 12 assists, 7/10 from deep, 3 steals after returning from injury in debut with the Idaho Stampede.

I've tried to bring as many things together as possible in one post here. Look out, Patrick Mills has a big future and we have to be thankful that it's with the Blazers.