It’s not hard to choose the four best Blazers ever (in my opinion, at least): Bill Walton, Clyde Drexler, Brandon Roy, and Damian Lillard. Choosing the best forward, however, gets a bit dicier.
Maurice Lucas, Rasheed Wallace, and LaMarcus Aldridge shared sneakily similar career arcs with the Blazers, making it difficult to choose between them. All three players excelled as second options but may not have been cut out to be the top player on a championship team.
Older fans saw that in action with the Lucas who helped propel the Blazers to the 1977 championship, alongside an MVP-caliber teammate, but struggled when he was asked to be the best player on the team in subsequent seasons.