Today we reach the midway point through our Top 100 List of Portland Trail Blazers players and influencers. The gap between #51 and #50 is more than mathematical. This marks the delineation between players people are going to be surprised to see make the list (as in, “Oh! I had forgotten about him!”) and names almost every Blazers fan will instantly recognize. Yes, there are 50. The franchise has been around half a century, after all.
The halfway marker seems like a good point to affirm that no Top 100 list is completely objective. Multiple criteria come into play with each selection, some weighing more than others, some even conflicting at times.