My first season as a Portland Trail Blazers beat writer is one I’ll never forget.
The job was the biggest professional challenge of my young life — a graduate course in sports reporting full of long nights, lots of learning and constant pressure on my comfort zone. It was also the realization of a childhood dream to cover my hometown team full-time and on-site, the same franchise I grew up watching and reading about in the morning paper.
To me, there’s not a more meaningful story to tell in sports than the Portland Trail Blazers.