The Portland Trail Blazers will exit the 2022-23 NBA season with more head scratches than high-fives. Damian Lillard had a standout year. Almost nothing else went right for Portland. Sometimes they were great, other times awful. It added up to a heaping helping of, “I don’t know?” Expectations heading into the year were higher than that. Not only did the Blazers fail to meet them, they exit the season with more questions than answers, seemingly no closer to a path forward than they were last September.
Yesterday we talked about the ambiguity and questions facing Blazers management and ownership.