Portland Trail Blazers Retired Numbers
The Portland Trail Blazers have retired 11 numbers. Each one below records who wore it, the seasons they wore it, and what earned it a place in the rafters.
Back to Portland Trail BlazersLarry Weinberg
Original Owner
The Portland Trail Blazers retired #1 to honor Larry Weinberg, the team's principal owner from the franchise's earliest years, who never played a minute of professional basketball but made the entire organization possible. Weinberg bet on Portland when it entered the NBA in 1970 as an expansion franchise with no history, no stars, and no guarantee of survival. He shepherded a struggling organization through lean seasons, financial pressures, and the growing pains of a city still learning to love professional basketball.
Why #1 was retiredDave Twardzik
1974-1980
The Portland Trail Blazers retired #13 to honor Dave Twardzik, the floor general whose unselfish, resourceful play embodied the character of the 1977 championship team. Twardzik crossed from the ABA to the NBA with Portland when the American Basketball Association folded in 1976. A 6-foot point guard from Old Dominion, he gave coach Jack Ramsay exactly what the system needed: a player who understood pace, protected the ball, and made teammates better.
Why #13 was retiredLarry Steele
1971-1980
The Portland Trail Blazers retired #15 to honor Larry Steele, the first player to put the franchise on the map for something other than losing. Selected in the 1971 NBA Draft, Steele joined an expansion team with no playoff history, no championship pedigree, and no star power, and he answered with relentless defense. In the 1974–75 season he led the entire NBA in steals at 2.68 per game, and his selection to the All-Defensive Team made him the first Trail Blazer to receive that recognition.
Why #15 was retiredMaurice Lucas
1976-1980, 1987-1988
Championships are not won by one player. They are won by combinations — complementary skill sets assembled around a central star, each piece serving the system rather than drawing attention away from it. The 1977 Portland Trail Blazers understood this better than any team of their era, and at the center of that understanding was Maurice Lucas: the broad-shouldered, unsentimental power forward from Pittsburgh whose role was simple, essential, and sometimes brutal. His job was to make sure nobody messed with Bill Walton.
Why #20 was retiredClyde Drexler
1983-1995
The #22 retired in the Moda Center rafters is Portland's declaration that Clyde Drexler — "The Glide" — was the greatest player the Trail Blazers produced in the modern era. Portland selected Drexler 14th overall in the 1983 NBA Draft out of the University of Houston, where he played alongside Hakeem Olajuwon on the "Phi Slama Jama" teams. Across twelve seasons he became one of the premier two-guards in basketball, leading Portland to the 1990 NBA Finals against Detroit and the 1992 Finals against Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls.
Why #22 was retiredBob Gross
1975-1982
The Portland Trail Blazers retired #30 to honor Bob Gross, the defensive backbone of the 1977 championship team and the greatest team in franchise history. Gross was not the scorer, rebounder, or playmaker, but when the Finals arrived against Julius Erving and the Philadelphia 76ers, coach Jack Ramsay put Gross on Erving and trusted him with a job very few players in basketball could do.
Why #30 was retiredTerry Porter
1985-1995
Portland's #30 honors Terry Porter, whose path from Division III basketball to two-time NBA All-Star is one of the most improbable in franchise history. Born April 8, 1963, in Milwaukee, Porter played four seasons at Wisconsin-Stevens Point before the Trail Blazers selected him 24th overall in the 1985 NBA Draft. Within two seasons he was Portland's starting point guard, a role he held for the better part of a decade.
Why #30 was retiredBill Walton
1974-1978
Twenty-three rebounds. Eight blocked shots. Two points separating Portland from the Philadelphia 76ers on the road, in a hostile arena, with a championship at stake. When the final buzzer sounded in Game 6 of the 1977 NBA Finals, Bill Walton had just delivered what Jack Ramsay called the greatest basketball he had ever witnessed — and the Portland Trail Blazers were NBA champions for the first and only time in franchise history.
Why #32 was retiredLloyd Neal
1972-1979
The Portland Trail Blazers retired #36 to honor Lloyd Neal, one of the original Trail Blazers who laid the groundwork for everything that followed. Selected in the second round of the 1972 NBA Draft, Neal was a center and power forward who gave Portland reliable interior play across seven seasons from 1972 to 1979, appearing in 509 games. He averaged double figures in points during his prime years, but it was his rebounding, screen-setting, and post defense that earned lasting respect from teammates and coaches.
Why #36 was retiredGeoff Petrie
1970-1976
Before Bill Walton. Before Clyde Drexler. Before Damian Lillard. Before any of the names that Portland fans now associate with Trail Blazers greatness, there was Geoff Petrie — the Princeton-educated guard who arrived in Portland's very first season, immediately became the franchise's most exciting player, and set the standard for what excellence in a Trail Blazers uniform looked like before anyone in Rip City had thought to define it.
Why #45 was retiredJack Ramsay
Coach 1976-1986
The greatest coaches in professional sports are remembered for what they build — not just what they win, though winning is part of it, but the systems and cultures and philosophies that make winning possible and that outlast the individual players who execute them. Jack Ramsay built something in Portland. He built a championship. He built a philosophy. He built the template for how the Trail Blazers wanted to play basketball, and that template endured long after his ten seasons in Rip City had concluded.
Why #77 was retired