(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1970 1977 1984 1988 1995 1995 Portland Team Formation Portland sports promoter Harry Glickman had sought in creating a basketball team in the city as soon as the Memorial Coliseum was opened in 1960, but the NBA board of governors only granted him the rights to a franchise on February 6, 1970. To raise the …