hmmm...blazers are throwing all the eggs in a 5th place basket. it's a young 5th place basket, but it's a 5th place basket nonetheless.
yeah, half your cap going forward is crabbe/turner/mccollum/leonard. add in lillard's max, and you're looking at fielding the same basic team for a while. and that team isn't all that great. but it should be a playoff team, and that probably matters in a market like portland.
Crabbe at 18 million p.a. is laughable...dude has a 10/2 average and his defense isn't all that great. The NBA today is absurd.
