Portland Trail Blazers: Would You Like Some Fries With That Shake (Up)?
So what is Portland doing? I’m not sure they even know.
The team made themselves worse in the last year. Their one big acquisition this offseason was Jerami Grant, and he will be a free agent after the season.
While he’s been good in Rip City, do the Portland Trail Blazers want to give him the max deal he’ll want?
With Lillard set to eclipse $50M annually, along with Simons’ and Nurkic’s extensions kicking in, that’s not a great idea. The quartet hasn’t exactly set the league on fire this year, and I’m not demanding an encore.
Lillard has two, maybe three more blasts in the Roman candle of his career, and Portland is nowhere near being a contender. They have too many guys who play the same spots and nobody to play center or power forward.
Portland’s only players with star potential all play the same position and can’t be on the floor at the same time. Oh, and the guy they are building around is a decade older than most of the team, so they’re not even on the same timeline.
Just fantastic work in putting this current group of Blazers together.