Following the summer of 2016, the Trail Blazers owned a rent-free place on the majority of the “bad contract” lists that NBA pundits produced. With those moves now in the rearview mirror, Bleacher Report’s Grant Hughes went in a different direction inside his list of contracts that teams would like to dismiss.
Instead of focusing on the players currently on Portland’s payroll, Hughes pivoted to the dead money that Andrew Nicholson adds to the Blazers’ books. Nicholson was waived and stretched after he was shipped to Portland in a deal that sent Allen Crabbe to Brooklyn.