The Portland Trail Blazers are likely to be capped out this offseason. The only way they can get into cap space is by letting Trevor Ariza and Hassan Whiteside leave for nothing, if they were to do this it would only create minimal cap room anyway. If they don’t do this, it means they will have around ten million to spend on one player, so they need to spend wisely. This could be on a one-year deal, all they way through to a four-year deal.
Obviously the decisions around Ariza and Whiteside will impact where they go with their midlevel, but if they do bring these two back, which is looking likely, then they will be looking for wing help in terms of defense and positional size.