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Trail Blazers Have Retained Flexibility in Case of Failure

Most Portland Trail Blazers fans, and many pundits, are bullish on the Blazers’ improvements heading into the 2022-23 NBA season. Portland has traded for Jerami Grant, signed Gary Payton II, retained Anfernee Simons and Jusuf Nurkic. People are looking at this as a fresh start after the relatively-placid proceedings of the last seven years.

But not everybody is convinced that the new experiment will work. What happens if it just...doesn’t? That’s the topic for today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag.

Hi Dave,

What happens next season if this team doesn’t perform? Trade a bunch of pieces and retool around Dame again?