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There’s a new one-two punch in Portland this season.
When LaMarcus Aldridge joined the San Antonio Spurs, it signaled the end of the sparring of egos between him and Damian Lillard and marked the end of the Portland Trail Blazers narrative as a playoff dark horse. Robin Lopez, Wesley Matthews, and Nic Batum all followed suit out the revolving door, reluctantly cracked open by the Blazers front office. In the dark depths of Rip City, all that was left was just Dame.
Reality starts to set in for a player left all alone.