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Ever wonder about that guy who jumps into the middle of a Trail Blazers game to give us stats and chop it up with the rest of the broadcasting crew? We did too!

So we reached out and Tara got to talk to Tom Haberstroh (https://bsky.app/profile/tomhaberstroh.bsky.social) - about his basketball journey, how he got into covering sports, what kinds of things he's learned about Rip City since he started covering the Blazers and which Portland restaurant won him over . . .

All this and so much more!!

(This was such a fun talk and we covered so much! Go follow Tom but also please follow Hoops4ALS on Instagram and Bluesky to support the work they do to help people with ALS)

1:00 On the excellence of the Blazers Broadcasting crew

7:00 1977 Championship game tv rating

10:00 Tom's basketball origin story

18:00 Sports coverage origin story

20:00 Covering basketball through an analytics lens

27:00 Favorite player (and moms)

36:30 What he has learned about #RipCity since he started to cover the team

43:00 Time machine Blazer team he would cover

50:00 Question from Rose: What new or revised NBA statistic do you think would add to our understanding of the modern game?

59:00 Al Farouq Aminu talk!!

1:00:30 Crunch Time talkThe cutest intro/outro music by Eric Peterson (@shoozumoops)

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