Hello and welcome to the game theory podcast, offseason preview series where Bryce Simon and I break down all 30 teams and the decisions they have forthcoming in the summer of 2025 in order to try to improve their standing within the NBA.

Today, we're going to talk about the Portland Trailblazers, but first go hit the subscribe button over on YouTube, over on Spotify,

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Bryce,

we're going to talk about one of really our teams,

I feel like it's our Portland Trailblazers is what it comes down to.

The Portland Trailblazers are one of the teams that we truly, I think, talked about more

than any other in the back half of the season, in part because they played so well.

And like one of the reasons they played so well is the emergence of a core.

I feel like that's what hadn't happened recently in this little rebuild post-Damy

and Lillard.

They were struggling to find who the

core players are like 1,000% going to be between

Scoot Henderson struggles, Shaden Sharp being a little bit

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