Editing Portland Trail Blazers (section)

=== NBA draft ===
The Trail Blazers have had the No. 1 pick in the [[NBA draft]] four times in their history; each time selecting a [[center (basketball)|center]]. In 1972 the choice was [[LaRue Martin]], [[Bill Walton]] was picked in 1974, [[Mychal Thompson]] in 1978, and [[Greg Oden]] was taken in 2007. Several Blazers' picks have been criticized by NBA commentators as particularly unfortunate:<ref name="baddraft">{{Cite web |last=Schoenfield |first=Dave |date=April 27, 2006 |title=The 100 worst draft picks ever |url=https://www.espn.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/060427 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903093934/http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=schoenfield/060427 |archive-date=September 3, 2011 |access-date=November 5, 2007 |website=ESPN.com Page 2 |publisher=[[ESPN]]}}</ref>
* The selection of Martin over [[Bob McAdoo]].
* The selection of center [[Sam Bowie]] with the No. 2 pick in the [[1984 NBA draft]] over [[Michael Jordan]] (who was then picked next by the [[Chicago Bulls]]); other notable players taken later in that draft include future Hall-of-Famers [[Charles Barkley]] and [[John Stockton]].
* The selection of [[Greg Oden]] over [[Kevin Durant]] in 2007.
* Other notable draft picks include player-coach [[Geoff Petrie]], [[Sidney Wicks]], [[Larry Steele]], [[Lionel Hollins]] and [[Jim Paxson]] in the 1970s and [[Clyde Drexler]], [[Jerome Kersey]], [[Terry Porter]] and [[Arvydas Sabonis]] in the 1980s.
In the 1990s, the Blazers selected [[Jermaine O'Neal]] and in the modern millennium drafted [[Zach Randolph]] and, in 2006, acquired [[Brandon Roy]] and [[LaMarcus Aldridge]] in a draft day that included six trades involving the Trail Blazers.