Portland Trail Blazers GM Joe Cronin is doing his best Troy Weaver impersonation in conducting a dramatic overhaul of the roster, razing out bad fits and bad contracts (and, it should be noted, good players) in an attempt to right the ship in Portland.
Whereas Weaver was completing razing the roster around a significant rebuild, Cronin is trying to do something much more difficult — clear the decks so he can build a proper, competitive, maybe even contending team, around star Damian Lillard.
Already, he’s sold off the high-priced deal or Norman Powell for scraps and salary saving, and today he pulled off his biggest move yet — moving franchise mainstay CJ McCollum to New Orleans for Josh Hart, Nickeil Alexander Walker and future draft picks.