The Portland Trail Blazers have been the subject of some hot takes by Western Conference prediction teams in recent weeks, with experts pinning the squad as high as first and as low as ninth. ESPN’s Kevin Arnovitz joined the chorus on the Lowe Post with Zach Lowe this week, listing the Blazers as one of the five teams he was confused about.
However, his confusion wasn’t directed at the team, but at the experts, namely his ESPN colleague Kevin Pelton, whose predictions positioned Portland as the ninth seed.
“I look at the projections, I think these are intelligent people running intelligent models.