With 2022 in the background, what portland trailblazersWhat’s your biggest regret of the calendar year? Bleacher Report’s Dan Favale thinks he has the answer.
In a recent article questioning all NBA teamsFaber cites Portland’s failure to secure another 2022 first-round pick during last season’s roster reset.
Portland gave up on CJ McCallum, Larry Nance Jr., Norman Powell and Robert Covington and failed to add another 2022 first-round pick.
Favale has questioned the CJ McCollum trade package’s return from New Orleans, but he los angeles clippersOn that February deal, Portland sent out starters Norman Powell and Robert Covington, along with Keon Johnson, Justice Winslow, Eric Bledsoe of several months (who never played), and from Detroit. sought the return of a 2025 second-round pick.
Missing a pick from New Orleans didn’t matter. The Blazers still carved out a massive trade exception, acquiring Milwaukee’s 2025 first-round pick and parlaying it to Jerami Grant. Was that enough? When I was sending NOLA 2 Any players interested in expanding?
Portland’s return to Covington and Powell is harder to accept. Acquisition of his second-rounder and Keone Johnson for Detroit 2025 as a primary reward reflects more than anything how the league felt about signing Powell. But his market, specifically, could have increased during the offseason if they hadn’t shut him down and suffered a left leg injury he suffered in LA a few months later.
Both trades were controversial at the time, but the New Orleans deal was spoiled in hindsight by the emergence of key roles in the rotation for Grant and Josh Hart. Inside remains more questionable. General manager Joe Cronin said the reason for the trade was the need to clean up the franchise’s bookkeeping and ensure flexibility. But did he sell too quickly and too cheaply, as Favale suggests?
Do you agree with Faber’s assessment of the Blazers’ biggest regret of 2022?
