It probably wasn’t the way the Portland Trail Blazers preferred to drop a bombshell, but they appear to be out of the running to keep free agent forward LaMarcus Aldridge.
At least that’s what assistant coach Kim Hughes tells an Indiana TV station.
Hughes was in Indiana working a camp with young Portland big man Meyers Leonard. Hughes was talking to the station WTHI out of Terre Haute, Indiana about Meyers’ growing role on the team.
That’s when things went all double-takey.
“Well, people don’t realize we just went young,” Hughes said (video linked above).