Trail Blazers Waiting Out Slow-Developing Trade Market
Jerami Grant, Anfernee Simons and Matisse Thybulle could be on the move before the end of the summer—but it may take a while.
The Trail Blazers were always going to have a quiet free agency.
After picking up Dalano Banton’s $2.2 million team option for next season and signing No. 7 overall pick Donovan Clingan to his rookie-scale contract, Portland has all 15 roster spots spoken for, and being well over the salary cap, they only have exceptions to work with.
But Blazers general manager Joe Cronin already agreed to one trade, sending Malcolm Brogdon to Washington on draft night for Deni Avdija (it should be made official early next week), and there could be more coming soon.
When those moves happen and what they look like could take a while to play out.