TrueHoop Network Drops 30-Team Coverage Model, Parts Ways With Blazers Blog Portland Roundball Society

ESPN.com的TrueHoop及rkinformed its writers Thursday that the network of affiliated NBA blogs will no longer pursue a 30-team coverage model and that a number of longtime affiliate sites will be losing their association with ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network.

The network's Portland Trail Blazers affiliatePortland Roundball Societyis one of the sites that is losing its ESPN/TrueHoop Network association, but the site will continue independently under the guidance of lead writer/editorJoe Swideand returning writersGrady O'BrienandSunny Ahluwalia. The site will keep its current name and URL.

It's not yet clear whether the TrueHoop Network will have a Blazers site during the 2013-14 season, although that decision is expected shortly.

Portland Roundball Societylaunched in 2010.

Swide, who wrote a nice think piece about Meyers Leonardback in March, offered this statement to Blazersedge about his background as a writer and his future plans for the site.

我在西南波特兰长大，我一生都是一个美洲洲的粉丝（可能是1996年的J.R. Rider / Kenny Anderson Squad，如果我不得不在它上面）。我于2006年搬到了西雅图参加华盛顿大学，在2010年毕业后，我在过去3年里工作在Ebbets田野法兰列机上，使得葡萄酒棒球制服的正宗复制品，并使用定制服装上的其他品牌。作为一名作家，我上赛季以来一直为波特兰圆球社会做出贡献，我也为真正的变革新闻报道，街头报纸专注于社会正义和城市贫困问题（或者是波特兰的街道根的西雅图相当）。

My immediate plan for the Portland Roundball Society is to refresh our site design and continue to strengthen our readership through smart, creative coverage from a diverse community of contributors. We'll have two writers returning from last season (not counting me), plus the additions of two professional journalists, an analytics-minded blogger, and a local artist. Editorially, I want us to focus heavily on the narrative of the season and then build the analysis and other elements outward from there. Our new renovated website, which should be up by the season opener, will be designed to emphasize those same editorial goals (in the meantime, we'll have a more minimalist design that should be up by early next week). I'm really excited about the potential of Blazers basketball this season and I'm even more excited about the position we'll have to cover the hell out of it!

In other Blazers media news,The Oregonianisstill searching for a Blazers beat writerafterJason Quickmoved to the paper's University of Oregon's football beat, andThe Vancouver Columbianis alsolooking for a Blazers writerafter Candace Buckner moved on to theIndianapolis Star.

-- Ben Golliver | benjamin.golliver@gmail.com |Twitter