The Portland Trail Blazers enter the Summer of 2025 fresh off a 36-46 season in which they exceeded expectations but still fell short of making the NBA Playoffs (or any kind of significant dent in the league). That leaves them in an odd situation. If they were good or bad, their course forward would be easy to assess. Since they’re really neither, it’s hard to say definitively where they are, let alone what they need to do next. It’s the infamous Rorschach Test. What you take away from the evaluation depends largely on what you brought into it.
Taking Stock of the Trail Blazers in the Summer of 2025
