Unusually, in an period the place the three-future-first-plus-two-swaps “blockbuster” commerce supply for superstars has change into the norm, the Blazers didn’t stockpile draft capital once they traded Damian Lillard final season. They as an alternative largely obtained again helpful gamers – Deandre Ayton, Jrue Vacation, the latter of which was was Malcolm Brogdon and Robert Williams, and many others – leaving themselves in an ungainly place of neither bottoming-out nor competing for something. There are a number of gamers on the roster they might be hoping to commerce for belongings within the close to future – Ayton, Williams, Jerami Grant – and who thus rely as belongings themselves. However for now, Portland goes to go along with their new younger core of Scoot Henderson, Donovan Clingan and Shaedon Sharpe and preserve the remaining in flux for later.
Inner draft picks outgoing: Lottery-protected first owed to Chicago by way of 2028; all however two seconds traded away
Exterior draft picks incoming: 2029 first and two rights to swap, 5 seconds
Wage cap scenario: Little owed after 2026
Traded Participant Exceptions:
$8,778,377 – expires twenty seventh September 2024 (Damian Lillard)
$862,382 – expires 1st October 2024 (Jrue Vacation)
$6,875,000 – expires sixth July 2025 (Malcolm Brogdon)
Probably helpful draft rights owned: None
Common age of roster: 24.9 (fifth within the NBA)
