About We Have A Take: A Portland Trail Blazers Fan Podcast
Two women who love the Portland Trail Blazers talk about the games, players, teams, mascots, fans, uniforms, and history that make Rip City great. With Tara Bowen-Biggs and Rose Harding. Serious fans, fun takes.
We have a take and so can you.
Announcing the Winners of the 2025-26 WHAT Awards!
Hosts Rose and Tara celebrate the 2025-26 season's achievements by announcing the winners of the coveted WHAT Awards.
13 Apr 2026
WHAT About The Play In Tournament
The season is wrapping up, the Blazers are in the play in as the 8th seed!
We caught up about our early thoughts on the new ownerships, answer listener questions, and threaten to withhold the WHAT Awards if they don't take care of business with Sacramento. (They did, here is the ballot: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOLS994wBT_UuvQooK033nXf818cS2NzKgnYQY1zAEShDF9g/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=117146787304348480959)
7:00 New ownership first impressions
15:00 Did we get kicked out of the group chat?
20:00 Matisse Thybulle, house cat
25:00 Centers Donovan Clingan and Robert Williams III taking (and making) threes
31:00 Question from Jason: Would you rather the Blazers make the playoffs or be in the lottery?
40:00 Blake Wesley or Caleb Love next season?
42:00 San Pedro @linssenp.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/linssenp.bsky.social) Eventful season
47:00 KeanuReevesBook (https://bsky.app/profile/jamesgameboy.bsky.social/post/3mjcq7aid5c2n); enough with the Clippers!!
59:00 Rose (does not) define “double dribble” and “traveling” (question via @octdesertlover.bsky.social
1:02:00 Keith (https://bsky.app/profile/ripcitykeith.bsky.social) wish we could have seen more Yang Hansen
28 Mar 2026
WHAT Award Nominees: Who will win Most Valuable Blazer?
Announcing the 2026 WHAT Award Nominations!
First we caught up with Conor Bergin of Blazers Edge then he joined us to announce the nominees for the Most Important Awards of all, the 2026 WHAT Awards!
1:00 Catching up with Conor: Coach is arrested, Deni Avdija is an All Star, Donovan is a beast, Tiago Splitter is holding it down, Vít Krejčí arrives . . . It was great catching up with him to get some behind the scenes stories about this Blazer’s season.
15:30 Sidy (pronounced City) Cissoko profile - how it came about, what didn’t make it into the article
41:00 WHAT Award nominations introduction
42:00 Most Valuable Blazer:
Donovan Clingan
Tiago Splitter
Sidy Cissoko & Caleb Love “Two Way Brigade”
Deni Avdija
52:00 Blazer Cutie
Pat Connaughton
Jusuf Nurkic
Deandre Ayton
Rodney Hood
1:01:00 Fashion Moment
Blake Wesley big shorts
Toumani Headband
Jerami Grant hand made hats
Kris Murray’s commitment to team issued sweats
1:13:00 Most Improved Blazer
Donovan Clingan
Toumani Camara
Rob Williams III
Sidy Cissoko
1:17:30 MVP
Donovan Clingan's dog Ollie (https://www.instagram.com/ollie_poppp_/)
Kris Murray's dogs Rosie and Indie (https://www.instagram.com/thegoldengirlss.indy.and.rosie/)
Maybe: Vít Krejčí’s dog who we don’t know anything about but Conor is going to find out their name and we’re sure they are a very good girl or good boy.
+1:26:00 Celebrator man of the year award
Sidy Cissoko
Scoot Henderson
Blake Wesley
The Box
1:33:00 Takes
(https://www.instagram.com/shoozumoops/)
Inside a recent episode
Announcing the Winners of the 2025-26 WHAT Awards!
Published 25 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah, first-time All-Star this year. Really helped our team overachieve. Like, there was definitely games where I'm like, we won on the back of Geniovia. Yeah. But they also were able, when he was out... They did better than they did the year before. Yeah. And honestly, like, I don't even know. I was thinking about this. I don't even know if he has the leap that he has without all those injuries at the beginning of the season. I don't even know if they would have discovered just put the ball in his hands. Right. There was nobody else. Yeah. It was like it was a little bit of like an innovation of necessity. […]
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