Despite a Conference Finals run in the 2018-19 season, Portland Trail Blazers President of Basketball Operations Neil Olshey isn’t resting on his laurels, running back the same team in 2019-20. The Blazers have a number of outgoing free agents and likely do not have the financial flexibility to keep all of them. To counter, Olshey made a pre-free agency move to strengthen the team’s wing rotation when he and the Trail Blazers agreed to a deal with the Atlanta Hawks to trade Evan Turner for Kent Bazemore.
The loss of Turner will be felt from a playmaking perspective; Portland would often go to him in the post and let him create offense for others from those spots.