With the start of the NBA regular season roughly two weeks away, John Schuhmann over at NBA.com has compiled and released the yearly GM Survey, which queries the league's top decision-makers about a number of topics pertaining to the recently completed offseason and the upcoming season. From which team is the favorite to win the 2021-22 NBA Championship to who is the best coach, the survey provides as good of a baseline as you'll find into the assumptions and expectations held by the the league’s 30 general managers.
While the Trail Blazers as a team don’t get much love from the GMs in this year’s survey, a number of individual players and coaches were recognized in various categories.