NBA free agency is upon us and it appears that the Trail Blazers are content with a conservative approach this summer. According to Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix, the Blazers are not in a rush to move CJ McCollum or Damian Lillard and they could be in the market for forward Nic Batum.
The Blazers have shown no inkling they intend to move on from Damian Lillard or C.J. McCollum, and have a slew of their own free agents—Norman Powell, most notably, plus guaranteeing the $12 million for the final year of Jusuf Nurkic’s contract, which Portland is expected to do—to deal with.