1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season

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The 1994–95 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 25th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. The Trail Blazers 25th season was marked by change as they played their final season at the Memorial Coliseum under new head coach P.J. Carlesimo. The team also had the 17th overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, and selected shooting guard Aaron McKie out of Temple University.

The Trail Blazers started the regular season by defeating the Los Angeles Clippers in their first two games, which were played overseas in Yokohama, Japan. The team got off to a 6–6 start, and played around .500 in winning percentage for the first half of the season, holding a 25–20 record at the All-Star break, as Terry Porter only played just 35 games due to an ankle injury. Clyde Drexler averaged 22.0 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 1.8 steals per game for the first half of the season, but was not selected for the NBA All-Star Game this season.

On February 14, 1995, with the Trail Blazers out of serious contention for the championship, the team honored Drexler's request to be traded to a contender, sending him along with three-point specialist Tracy Murray to the defending NBA champion Houston Rockets in exchange for forward Otis Thorpe. The Rockets went on to win their second straight NBA title, defeating the Orlando Magic in four straight games in the 1995 NBA Finals; it was Drexler's first ever championship. With the addition of Thorpe, the Trail Blazers finished in fourth place in the Pacific Division with a 44–38 record, and earned the seventh seed in the Western Conference; it was their 13th consecutive trip to the NBA playoffs.

Clifford Robinson averaged 21.3 points and 5.6 rebounds per game, and led the Trail Blazers with 142 three-point field goals, while Rod Strickland averaged 18.9 points, 8.8 assists and 1.9 steals per game, and Thorpe played a sixth man role off the bench, averaging 13.5 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in 34 games after the trade. In addition, Buck Williams provided the team with 9.2 points and 8.2 rebounds per game, while Chris Dudley contributed 5.5 points, 9.3 rebounds and 1.5 blocks per game. Off the bench, Harvey Grant provided with 9.1 points and 3.8 rebounds per game, while Porter contributed 8.9 points and 3.8 assists per game, second-year guard James Robinson contributed 9.2 points per game, Jerome Kersey averaged 8.1 points and 4.1 rebounds per game, and McKie contributed 6.5 points per game.

In the Western Conference First Round of the 1995 NBA playoffs, the Trail Blazers faced off against the 2nd–seeded, and Pacific Division champion Phoenix Suns, who were led by the All-Star trio of Charles Barkley, Kevin Johnson, and three-point specialist Dan Majerle. The Trail Blazers lost the first two games to the Suns on the road at the America West Arena, before losing Game 3 at home, 117–109 at the Memorial Coliseum, thus losing the series in a three-game sweep.

The Trail Blazers finished 24th in the NBA in home-game attendance, with an attendance of 529,759 at the Memorial Coliseum during the regular season, which was the fourth-lowest in the league. Following the season, Thorpe was traded to the Detroit Pistons, while Porter signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Kersey was left unprotected in the 1995 NBA expansion draft, where he was selected by the Toronto Raptors expansion team, and Mark Bryant signed with the Houston Rockets.