Sam Quinn of CBS Sports ranked the front office of all 30 NBA teams, putting the Blazers in 25th place. Quinn used a host of metrics when making his evaluations, but summed up the process thusly:
Essentially, if you were tasked with setting up an expansion team tomorrow and knew nothing of its market or other circumstances, which of the 30 existing front offices would you most trust to put together a winner?
He also divided the front offices into tiers ranging from “Tier 1: Nearly Perfect” to “Tier 11: I can’t defend what you’re doing”.