CJ McCollum, Damian Lillard, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
The Portland Trail Blazers have opened an up-and-down season with a 2-2 record. Here’s where experts across the NBA are ranking them.
The history books are officially closed on the first week of the 2020-21 NBA season, which, in some ways, feels like a surprise. Hot takes and overreactions are already in midseason form, and for pessimists, the Portland Trail Blazers have been eliminated from postseason contention, everywhere but mathematically.
Over the course of 210 articles in the last nine months, I’ve likely had a share in some of those knee-jerk reactions.