The Portland Trail Blazers need to add talent if they’re to compete with the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, and other elite NBA teams. The Summer of 2018 is fast approaching and the Blazers will be among several NBA franchises hoping to make good in free agency. Portland’s famously-fried salary cap situation will prevent them from chasing significant free agents outright, but they also have a $12.9 million cap exception sitting unused, ticking towards its one-year expiration date in late July. One Blazer’s Edge Mailbag reader wants to know if the Blazers could employ that exception in a sneaky sign-and-trade move for guards Tyreke Evans and/or Rodney Hood.
Dare the Trail Blazers Use their Trade Exception?
