Blazers Make ‘Most Disappointing’ List

The Portland Trail Blazers are making top countdowns for the wrong reasons lately. In a recent piece for CBS Sports, Brad Botkin ranked the NBA’s most disappointing teams of the 2022-23 season and Rip City came in at No. 4.

Botkin didn’t mince any words, diagnosing the Blazers as “average” with so much disdain you sort of wish he just called them “bad.” He referred to the reluctance of former general manager Neil Olshey and how for years people wanted him to make aggressive moves.

This is an absolutely average team. Not good. Not bad. Certainly not what they hoped they would become when they finally shook up their roster. I still want to believe that Gary Payton II is a major difference-maker…