Building for contention 101.

Before I say anything basketball related, I'd like to apologize to anyone who's been checking up on my blog for not posting anything this past month. I was bombarded by high school graduation, and then completing Finals and other school-related things. Now that summer is upon us though, I have a little more free time in which to spend on my blog. I know I said in my last column that I hope to be posting more regularly but this time I really mean it. Really. So now that that's out of the way... on to basketball! This article is for all my Blazers fans out there, and I hope you enjoy it! I was in the middle of a column about the NBA Finals finishing but I interrupted that for a quick (Yes, this is quick. Fastest 5,000 words I've ever written) column about the draft. Which is a mere 16 hours from the time I am publishing this article. So you'll likely be getting two columns from me in two days. Exciting! This column is, as the title suggests, how to build the Blazers into a Finals contender. Enjoy! (Note: I was recently told that paragraph breaks make things easier to read, so I tried implementing that in this column.)