After general manager Joe Cronin’s remodeling of the roster, the Portland Trail Blazers sit under the luxury tax with their salary books the cleanest they’ve been in years. Still, bad contracts exist on every NBA roster, with every GM having their share of hits and misses.
In a recent piece, Bleacher Report’s Andy Bailey dove into this subject by naming every NBA teams’ best and worst value contracts. For Portland, Bailey pinpointed two moves the Blazers made this summer, giving roses to the signing of defensive specialist Gary Payton II and showing apprehension toward Damian Lillard’s contract extension.