The Portland Trail Blazers have a long road ahead of them in the Summer of 2023 if they want to transform from their current 33-win status into a contending team, fulfilling the promise they’ve made to superstar Damian Lillard. The process will not be simple.
The Blazers have specific tools to employ at given stages of the off-season, while others will be denied to them, or at least muted in a competitive disadvantage to other franchises.
This post will lay out the steps and decisions points the Blazers will face in their quest to build, in roughly chronological order.