The Portland Trail Blazers are coming off an encouraging 36-46 season. They expect to build on that momentum in 2025-26, hoping to make the play-in despite being in a loaded Western Conference. However, they face a concerning low win projection of 33.5 games, suggesting that Portland's hot stretch to finish the season may have been a fluke and that they are due for regression to the mean.
Tim Legler and Adam Mares recently covered their over/under win total predictions for the Western Conference on the ALL NBA Podcast. Both wound up taking the over for the Blazers, but not by much, predicting them to win around 34-35 games.