Playoffs vs. Rockets Game 1
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW The Portland Trail Blazers did not match up well against the Houston Rockets at the Rose Garden as the two teams met in the first round of the playoffs. Game 2 will be in Portland, Oregon on Tuesday night.
Portland playoff rally
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW Portland Trail Blazer fans crammed into Pioneer Courthouse Square for a mid-afternoon rally for their team as they head into the NBA basketball playoffs.
Ladd Tower
[qt:http://www.bruceely.com/ladd/ladd.mp4 http://www.bruceely.com/ladd/ladd_poster.mov 640 480] After nearly two years of climbing onto the rooftop of the Oregonian building, a project I have been working on has finally been completed. I will follow up shortly with a how it was done video that my co-worker Randy Rasmussen put together. I also want to acknowledge my friend Rob [...]
Playoff Tickets
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW About 250 Portland Trail Blazer fans camped outside in the cold at the Rose Garden to wait in line to buy tickets for the playoffs. The first person in line showed up at noon and will have to wait a full 24-hours in line. Thanks to Tom Boyd for the heads [...]
Goodbye
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW During the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder I overheard Portland Trail Blazer GM Kevin Pritchard ask official Jack Nies if the game would be his last. Turns out that it was indeed his last game of a 29 year career. I thought it made a nice picture as the other [...]
Blazers vs Lakers
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW Doesn’t get much better than the Lakers at the Rose Garden. The Blazers are really playing their best ball of the season as they enter the playoffs for the first time since the 2003 season.
Blazers clinch playoffs
Went on the road with the Portland Trail Blazers to photograph them clinching their spot in the playoffs for the first time since 2003. There was talk about great locker room access if all went as planned. Well, it didn’t go as planned. In fact — worse case scenario happened. The spot was clinched with [...]
Remote control
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW I think my remote camera bailed me out tonight. I didn’t have much that I liked from my position on the floor. Here are a few others from the same remote camera. It was mounted on the standard just below the level of the backboard.
French lessons
CLICK IMAGE FOR SLIDESHOW NBA’s Portland Trail Blazer forward Nicolas Batum visited The Portland French School here in Portland, Oregon. Batum is a native of Lisieux, France and was acquired via Houston Rockets in the 2008 NBA draft. The Oregonian’s Ryan White and Molly Blue were also there to blog and produce a video about [...]
Gonzaga buzzer beater
The Oregonian’s Joel Odom put together this slideshow from the pictures Jamie Francis, Tom Boyd and I took at the Gonzaga basketball game. It was a great finish to the NCAA tournament that was hosted here at the Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.
NCAA basketball tournament
March Madness returned to Portland, Oregon for the first time in 26 years. Because of the NCAA anti-gambling stance, Oregon had been passed over for hosting the basketball tournament. Last year, lawmakers voted to get rid of Oregon’s state lottery game for betting on professional football. See more pictures from the tournament on my sportsshooter.com [...]
Red bugs
Last summer Oregonian sports reporter Jason Quick and I made a trip to the home of Portland Trail Blazer forward Travis Outlaw. When we arrived in Starkville, Miss. and met Travis, one of the first things we noticed was a large band aid on the back of Outlaw’s right arm. There were also scrapes on [...]
What’s in a name
I decided the first post on this blog would be this picture of the Tualatin Hills Synchronized swimming practice. It was one of my favorite pictures from the Sidelines photocolumn that fellow (former) Oregonian photographer Sol Neelman and I created. I have taken the name of that column to use for this blog. Below is [...]