Portland Wronged The Jail Blazers More Than The Jail Blazers Wronged Portla
Somehow they were never criticized for the shorts. credits: Jonathan Ferrey | source: Getty Images https://deadspin.com/portland-wronged-the-jail-blazers-more-than-the-jail-bl-1834341801/ Corbin Smith published: Mon 20th May, 12:53 2019 Late last year I attended a jersey release party thrown by the Portland Trail Blazers and Trillblazin , a Trail Blazers-centric independent clothing concern. The Cleaners, a gallery in Portland’s Pearl District, was flooded with people looking to get free t-shirts and tote bags, and looking at a dozen or so Blazers “RIP CITY” alternate jerseys that had been modified by local artists. A Blazers employee, a promotions guy, took a microphone and went from artist to artist, piece to piece, modified jersey to modified jersey, asking what their work meant. The artist Alex Brown cut up a bunch of old promotional balls for the turn-of-the-millenium Blazers teams that were known locally and nationally as The Jail Blazers, and then used that material to pl...