With the release of the Portland Trail Blazers’ 2022-23 regular season schedule, a clamor rose about the travel and early run of tough games the Blazers are set to experience this season. Following the uproar, we explained that Portland’s geographical location played a large role in the annual scheduling follies, and that nothing much could be done about that.
Soon after, a reader wrote in to remind us that something COULD be done: realigning NBA divisions so the Blazers weren’t quite so much of an outlier among their Western Conference compatriots. That’s the subject of today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag.