The Portland Trail Blazers will finally be free of their annual $2.8 million in dead money when the franchise’s season comes to an end in April. Andrew Nicholson never donned a Blazers jersey, despite impacting the team’s cap sheet for the better part of a decade.
This week we take a look at how the Blazers got stuck with Nicholson’s deal and how it has impacted the franchise since 2017.
In 2016, then Blazers President of Basketball Operations Neil Olshey used a rise in the salary cap to award huge deals to Evan Turner, Meyers Leonard, Moe Harkless and Allen Crabbe.