The Trail Blazers slipped in a three-team trade that landed Larry Nance Jr. just before the cutoff for ESPN’s offseason grades. Unsurprisingly, Nance Jr. helped boost the Portland’s results in the eyes of ESPN contributor Kevin Pelton.
Pelton awarded the Blazers with a B- grade. Inside the list, Pelton explained that last week’s trade boosted a pedestrian summer in Portland.
A sleepy Portland offseason, at least in terms of adding to a roster that came up short against Denver in the first round, was shaken up by last week’s trade sending out a protected first-rounder and Derrick Jones Jr.