Between injuries, COVID and performance, the five players who started on Opening Night for the Trail Blazers didn’t end up playing alongside each other much for the first few months of the season. Then after a flurry of moves prior to the 2022 deadline, and the persistence of some of those aforementioned injuries, many of the players who started the season in Portland are no longer with the team or not expected to return for some time, if at all.
And now, with 23 games left to play in the regular season, the Trail Blazers are going through more changes, resulting in the team looking considerably different, once again, after the All-Star break than they did before it.