The following is a detailed history of the Portland Trail Blazers, a professional basketball team which joined the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association in 1970.
 They play at the Moda Center in the Lloyd District of Portland.
 They are owned by Microsoft co-founder and Vulcan Inc. chairman Paul Allen, who purchased the team in 1988.
 The team is often referred to as "Rip City", which was coined by play-by-play announcer Bill Schonely during their inaugural season.
 The Trail Blazers have retired several players jerseys, including Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame members Clyde Drexler and Bill Walton.
 Jack Ramsay, who was the Trail Blazers head coach from 1976 to 1986, had the number 77 retired in honor of Portland's only NBA Finals victory in 1977.
 Portland has had four NBA Rookies of the Year; Geoff Petrie (1971), Sidney Wicks (1972), Brandon Roy (2007) and Damian Lillard (2013).
 The only NBA Most Valuable Player that earned the award as a member of the Trail Blazers was Bill Walton in 1978.
The Portland Trail Blazers, commonly known as the Blazers, are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.
 They play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Trail Blazers originally played their home games in the Memorial Coliseum, before moving to the Rose Garden in 1995.
 The franchise entered the league in 1970, and Portland has been its only home city.
 The franchise has enjoyed a strong following; from 1977 through 1995, the team sold out 814 consecutive home games, the longest such streak in American major professional sports.
 The Trail Blazers are the only team in the major professional North American sports leagues located in the state of Oregon.
 The Trail Blazers are also currently the only NBA team based in the binational Pacific Northwest, after the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to Memphis and became the Memphis Grizzlies in 2001, and the Seattle SuperSonics relocated to Oklahoma City and became the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2008.
The Breaks of the Game is a 1981 sports book written by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter David Halberstam about the Portland Trail Blazers' 1979–1980 season.
 The Trail Blazers are a professional basketball team which plays in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 Aside from a recap of the Blazers' season, the book attempts to give a detailed history of the NBA, the 1976–77 Portland Trail Blazers championship team, the injuries faced by departed star Bill Walton, and the life of Kermit Washington after his two-month suspension for punching Rudy Tomjanovich.
 The book also puts basketball into a social context and contains extensive discussion on race in the NBA.
The 1970 NBA draft was the 24th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The draft was held on March 23, 1970, before the 1970–71 season.
 In this draft, 17 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.
 A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection.
 If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated.
 The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each division, with the order determined by a coin flip.
 The Detroit Pistons won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the San Diego Rockets were awarded the second pick.
 The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season.
 Three expansion franchises, the Buffalo Braves, the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Portland Trail Blazers, took part in the NBA Draft for the first time and were assigned the seventh, the eighth and the ninth pick in each round.
 In the first round, the Cavaliers had the seventh pick, while the Blazers and the Braves had the eighth and the ninth pick respectively.
 In the subsequent rounds, the Cavaliers and the Braves exchanged their order of selection, while the Blazers had the eighth pick throughout the draft.
 The draft consisted of 19 rounds comprising the selection of 239 players; it holds the record for the most prospects selected in any NBA draft.
Steve Colter (born July 24, 1962) is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers in the second round (33rd overall) of the 1984 NBA draft.
 A 6'3" guard from New Mexico State, Colter played in 8 NBA seasons for 6 different teams.
 He played for the Trail Blazers, Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia 76ers, Washington Bullets, Sacramento Kings and Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Portland Trail Blazers are an American professional basketball team based in Portland, Oregon.
 The Trail Blazers play in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The franchise entered the NBA in 1970.
 The Trail Blazers sold out 814 consecutive home games from through , the longest such streak in American professional sports.
 The team has played their home games at the Rose Garden Arena since the 1995–96 NBA season.
 The Trail Blazers are owned by Paul Allen, and Neil Olshey is their general manager.
Michael David "Mike" Holton (born August 4, 1961) is a retired American professional basketball player, and current television studio analyst for the Portland Trail Blazers of the NBA.
 Born in Seattle, Washington, he played college basketball at UCLA from 1979 to 1983, and was selected in the third round of the 1983 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors, but began his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns in 1984–85.
 Holton, a 6'4" 185 lb guard, also spent his career with the Chicago Bulls, Portland Trail Blazers, and Charlotte Hornets.
 He also played in the CBA for four different teams in as many seasons from 1983 to 1992.
 He started 60 games for the expansion Charlotte Hornets.
 Holton briefly played for Great Taste Coffee in the Philippine Basketball Association.
The 1984 NBA draft was the 37th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 It was held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on June 19, 1984, before the 1984–85 season.
 The draft was broadcast in the United States on the USA Network.
 In this draft, 23 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.
 The Houston Rockets won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Portland Trail Blazers, who obtained the Indiana Pacers' first-round pick in a trade, were awarded the second pick.
 The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season.
 The Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded an extra first-round draft pick as compensation for the draft picks traded away by their previous owner, Ted Stepien.
 A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was automatically eligible for selection.
 Before the draft, five college underclassmen announced that they would leave college early and would be eligible for selection.
 Prior to the draft, the San Diego Clippers relocated to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Clippers.
 The draft consisted of 10 rounds comprising the selection of 228 players.
 This draft was the last to be held before the creation of the Draft Lottery in 1985.
 It was also the first NBA Draft to be overseen by David Stern.
Dorie S. Murrey (born September 7, 1943) is a retired American professional basketball player.
 He was a 6'8" (2.03 m) 215 lb (97½ kg) forward and he played collegiately at the University of Detroit Mercy.
 He has played in the NBA from 1966 to 1972.
 He was originally selected with the second pick in the 2nd round of the 1966 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons.
 He was taken in two expansion drafts.
 In 1967 he was made available by the Pistons to be selected by the Seattle SuperSonics, and in 1970 he was made available by the Sonics to be selected by the Portland Trail Blazers.
 He was traded 3 games into the 1970–71 season, on October 10, 1970, by the Trail Blazers to the Baltimore Bullets in exchange for a 1971 2nd round draft choice (Rick Fisher).
 During his six-year NBA career Murrey averaged 4.7 points and 4.4 rebounds per game in 357 career games.
The 1970 NBA Expansion Draft was the fifth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The draft was held on May 11, 1970, so that the newly founded Buffalo Braves, Cleveland Cavaliers and Portland Trail Blazers could acquire players for the upcoming 1970–71 season.
 Buffalo, Cleveland and Portland had been awarded the expansion teams on February 6, 1970.
 The Braves later underwent several name changes and relocations before moving to Los Angeles.
 They are currently known as the Los Angeles Clippers.
 In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league.
 Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected.
 In this draft, each of the fourteen other NBA teams had protected seven players from their roster.
 After each round, where each of the expansion teams had selected one player each, the existing teams added another player to their protected list.
 In the first round, the Braves had the first pick, while the Blazers and the Cavaliers had the second and the third pick respectively.
 In the subsequent rounds, the Braves and the Cavaliers exchanged their order of selection, while the Blazers had the second pick throughout the draft.
 The draft continued until all three teams had selected eleven unprotected players each, while the existing teams had lost two or three players each.

Question: What state was the draft held in which Steve Colter was selected in the second round by the Portland Trail Blazers?
Answer: New York