The Portland Trail Blazers didn’t experience major lineup changes this offseason. Only the trade involving Allen Crabbe disrupted the usual rotation from last year.
Dumping his contract with the Brooklyn Nets freed up nearly 30 minutes of floor time per night.
The return from Brooklyn, Andrew Nicholson, won’t absorb any of these minutes as he was waived shortly after.
Where will those extra minutes go?
Let’s go player by player through Portland’s roster and divide up the vacated time accordingly.
Damian Lillard
35.9 minutes in 2016-2017 | 35.2 in 2017-2018
The last four seasons, Damian Lillard played 35.