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2004–05 Portland Trail Blazers season

NBA professional basketball team season

Maurice Cheeks (fired)
Kevin Pritchard (interim)
KGW
FSN Northwest

The 2004–05 Portland Trail Blazers season was the 35th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association. During the offseason, the Blazers acquired Nick Van Exel from the Golden State Warriors and signed free agent Joel Przybilla. The Blazers played around .500 for the first two months, but started to struggle losing 11 of their 15 games in January. Head coach Maurice Cheeks was fired midway through the season with a record of 22–33. He was replaced by general manager Kevin Pritchard, who acted as interim coach for the remainder of the season, in which the team went 5–22. For the second year in a row, the Blazers did not qualify for the playoffs. The team's overall record of 27–55 was their worst since 1973–74, their fourth season of existence.

Following the season, Pritchard was fired as coach, Van Exel signed as a free agent with the San Antonio Spurs, Shareef Abdur-Rahim was traded to the New Jersey Nets, but failed his physical and later on signed with the Sacramento Kings, Damon Stoudamire signed with the Memphis Grizzlies, and Derek Anderson signed with the Houston Rockets.

For the season, they slightly once again changed their primary logo added Trail on their wordmark of the Blazers' primary logo they remained until 2017.

Draft picks

Main article: 2004 NBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	College / Club Team
1	13	Sebastian Telfair	G
1	23	Sergei Monia	G	CSKA Moscow (Russia)
2	47	Ha Seung-Jin	C	Yonsei University (South Korea)

Roster

Maurice Cheeks (fired)
Kevin Pritchard (interim)
Tim Grgurich (Pittsburgh)
John Loyer ()
Jim Lynam ()
Dan Panaggio (SUNY Brockport)
Bernard Smith (East Stroudsburg (PA))
Geoff Clark (Oregon State)

Regular season

Season standings

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

Game log

Date	opponent	score	record
November 3	@ Golden State	78-75	1-0
November 5	vs LA Clippers	94-81	2–0
November 7	@ Toronto	97-101	2–1
November 9	@ New Jersey	60-64	2-2
November 10	@ Boston	88-90	2–3
November 13	vs Toronto	105-102	3-3
November 17	vs Memphis	82-101	3–4
November 19	vs Milwaukee	110-98	4-4
November 21	vs Houston	93-97	4-5
November 23	@ Miami	99-87	5-5
November 24	@ Orlando	89-83	6-5
November 26	@ Dallas	83-92	6-6
November 28	vs New Jersey	83-71	7-6
November 30	vs Seattle	100-94	8-6
December 4	@Seattle	89-99	8-7

Player statistics

Regular season

Player	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
	81	70	34.1	.392	.369	.915	3.8	5.7	1.1	.0	15.8
	76	50	24.4	.598		.517	7.7	1.0	.3	2.1	6.4
	70	36	28.0	.531	.080	.599	3.9	2.0	1.5	.3	11.6
	68	26	19.6	.393	.246	.789	1.5	3.3	.5	.1	6.8
	63	45	27.5	.447		.692	5.3	.5	.4	2.5	4.8
	63	22	27.0	.482	.348	.600	4.7	2.0	1.2	1.2	12.8
	59	2	13.4	.498	.400	.653	2.1	.6	.5	.7	5.4
	54	49	34.6	.503	.385	.866	7.3	2.1	.9	.5	16.8
	53	34	30.5	.381	.389	.784	3.0	4.3	.8	.0	11.1
	47	32	26.4	.389	.384	.805	2.7	3.0	.8	.1	9.2
	46	37	34.8	.448	.000	.815	9.6	1.9	.7	.4	18.9
	43	0	11.6	.400	.388	.840	1.4	.7	.3	.1	3.8
	32	5	16.3	.435	.364	.548	3.4	.8	.6	.6	4.2
{{sortname	Ha Seung-jin}}	19	0	5.5	.435		.545	.9	.1	.1	.3
†	9	2	12.4	.611		.333	3.9	.4	.4	.4	2.7
	6	0	2.7	.667		.667	.2	.2	.0	.0	1.3
†	4	0	4.5	.000			.5	.3	.3	.0	.0

† Denotes player spent time with another team in the season. Stats reflect time with the Trail Blazers only.

References

[https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/POR/2005.html 2004–05 Portland Trail Blazers]

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