PORTLAND -- The Portland Trail Blazers’ 2021-22 season was a reminder, whether you needed it or not, that all things must come to an end.
The tenures of longtime leaders on both the basketball and business sides of the organization came to their respective ends after nearly a decade. The backcourt of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, a partnership that in many ways defined the last era of Trail Blazers basketball, came to an end after eight seasons. And Portland’s streak of eight-straight postseason berths came to an unceremonious end even before the season was over.