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1982–83 Portland Trail Blazers season

NBA professional basketball team season

(lost to Lakers 1–4)

The 1982–83 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 13th season of the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). The Blazers finished 46–36, a four-game improvement from the previous season.

In the 1983 NBA Playoffs, the Blazers won their first playoff series since their championship season of 1976–77, defeating the Seattle SuperSonics in their first-round best-of-three series in a two-game sweep and gaining a measure of revenge for the Sonics' having eliminated them from the postseason in 1978 and 1980.

However, the Blazers were bested in their Western Conference semi-final series against the Los Angeles Lakers four games to one, on the Lakers' way to the 1983 NBA Finals.

The 1982–83 NBA season saw the beginning of an unprecedented playoff streak for the Blazers, as they would go on to qualify for 21 consecutive postseasons. The second longest NBA playoff streak behind the Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers who made the playoffs every year from 1950 to 1971, and the San Antonio Spurs who made the playoffs every year from 1998 to 2019.

Draft picks

Main article: 1982 NBA draft

Note: This is not a complete list; only the first two rounds are covered, as well as any other picks by the franchise who played at least one NBA game.

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	School/Club team
1	11	Lafayette Lever	G		Arizona State

Roster

Jack Ramsay

Regular season

Season standings

:z - clinched division title :y - clinched division title :x - clinched playoff spot

Game log

Playoffs

2–0
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1
April 24
@ Los Angeles
L 97–118
Mychal Thompson (22)
Thompson, Natt (9)
three players tied (7)
The Forum
13,891
0–1
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2
April 26
@ Los Angeles
L 106–112
Calvin Natt (26)
Wayne Cooper (7)
Darnell Valentine (15)
The Forum
16,239
0–2
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3
April 29
Los Angeles
L 109–115 (OT)
Paxson, Natt (22)
Natt, Cooper (10)
Darnell Valentine (14)
Memorial Coliseum
12,666
0–3
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4
May 1
Los Angeles
W 108–95
Jim Paxson (20)
Calvin Natt (10)
Darnell Valentine (11)
Memorial Coliseum
12,666
1–3
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5
May 3
@ Los Angeles
L 108–116
Jim Paxson (32)
Calvin Natt (11)
Darnell Valentine (8)
The Forum
16,739
1–4
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Awards and honors

Jim Paxson, NBA All-Star

References

[https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/1983.html 1982-83 Portland Trail Blazers]

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