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Portland Trail Blazers: An interview with Curtis Long, Moda Center PA announcer

Portland Trail Blazers, Curtis Long (photo courtesy of Curtis Long)

Some Portland Trail Blazers games at the Moda Center, or even on your TV and radio, you might be listening for Mark Mason, the familiar in-arena voice excitedly announcing the Blazers lineup and other announcements. Wait a minute…that’s not Mason you’re hearing. Who is this?

Meet Curtis Long, the Principal at Scouter’s Mountain Elementary in Clackamas, the statistician for the Trail Blazers Radio Network, and fill in PA for Mason.

“I think I have the best of both worlds–lots of days, I get to work two jobs that I absolutely love!