Trades are at their most fascinating after they reveal clues about what a staff thinks of itself at that second and the place it’s headed … clues that will not have been utterly apparent earlier than the commerce.
Friday’s deal between the Clippers and Blazers wasn’t precisely a jaw-dropper — there have been rumors about assorted Norman Powell offers making the rounds, and Eric Bledsoe was moderately clearly the Clippers’ most tradeable commodity. Nonetheless, we realized quite a bit about each groups.
The commerce sends Bledsoe, Keon Johnson, Justise Winslow and Detroit’s 2025 second-round choose from the Clippers to Portland for Powell and Robert Covington.
For a Portland staff that has been pondering rebuilding questions for a lot of the previous couple of months, that is at the very least a tentative begin towards constructing round one thing new. Damian Lillard isn’t going wherever, at the very least for now, however Powell is 28 years previous and was signed for 4 extra years. Going all-in, this was not.
