The Portland Trail Blazers are on the runway to a rebuild. A young roster and unspent draft picks lie ahead, along with dozens of decisions that will lead the franchise forward into glory or something short of it. With the team in flux, Blazers fans resonate with one question above all others: How will they get from Point A to the Promised Land?
As they contemplate the future, both the Blazers and their supporters should take a lesson from a Western Conference rival who made the journey successfully: the Denver Nuggets. Denver’s ascendance was a fairy tale.