June 5, 2021
The Portland Trail Blazers have been bounced in the first round in four of the last five seasons. If you’re a Blazers fan, you’ve probably heard that factoid dozens of times already since Portland was eliminated by the Denver Nuggets in six games.
Immediately after Game 6, NBA Twitter started flooding with potential Damian Lillard trade ideas. Any coincidence they came exactly after the Los Angeles Lakers were ousted from their own first-round series? But while the smoke hasn’t exactly meant fire just yet, the Blazers would be remiss not to take this as a stern wake-up call.