Hassan Whiteside has a $27 million expiring salary and needs to be moved by the Trail Blazers before the trade deadline on March 6th. Regardless of what he is producing on court, this team won’t be re-signing him.
The main reason Whiteside should be traded is that the Blazers are over the cap, if they don’t trade him, then they don’t have the cap room to replace him. Trading Whiteside’s expiring is the most important task for this team in trade season.
Now that Kent Bazemore has been traded they have solved their wing problem.