So I feel honored to have been able to coach him.”In a season often defined by injuries, the Blazers were fittingly shorthanded for the final contest of the 2019-20 campaign. I feel like this is the place for me to end my career. GAME RECAP: Trail Blazers 114, Thunder 94. The news of where Melo ends up next season -- will be one of the biggest offseason storylines for the 2020-21 Portland Trail Blazers squad.
Now, where I’m at in my life and career, this is where I want to retire. As far as the contract is concerned, it will work itself out when the time comes, but I fully expect to be in a Portland Trail Blazer uniform next year.”He was shooting 50.6 percent from the field and 49.3 percent from three-point range in 21 games before his injury.
Following a dislocated shoulder to starting power forward Zach Collins in the third game of the season, the Trail Blazers first gave Melo a non-guaranteed contract for the rest of the 2019-2020 season. No videos available at this time. Under the current CBA agreement, the salary cap and luxury tax thresholds would crater due to billions of lost revenue because of the coronavirus pandemic. 2019 NBA Playoffs Blazers vs. Thunder first-round series results: Damian Lillard leads Portland past OKC, 4-1 Lillard and the Trail Blazers closed things out in Game 5 in dramatic fashion Maybe putting them in a literal bubble for the next several months will do the trick. NBA 2019-2020. He said no surgery will be needed but he'll be resting it for a couple of months.The Trail Blazers will head into next season with question marks -- too many to mention here and impossible to answer at this point.After the financial disaster caused by COVID-19, the league’s salary cap is a moving target right now, making it impossible to know how much cap room teams might have to sign or re-sign players.It was a strange season, all in all, and an even stranger year.As the Trail Blazers wrapped up play in the Orlando Bubble following Saturday night’s 131-122 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs, the question on everyone’s mind is -- When he was asked what type of things he will value when thinking about where he will play next year, Melo said he “pray” that he will be with the Trail Blazers.I pray that it can be Portland. He finished with 36 points, six rebounds and seven assists, keeping the Blazers within shouting distance until the closing minutes.In what might have been his final game in a Blazers jersey, Carmelo Anthony had 27 points and seven rebounds. The score was tied in the first half, but then the Blazers broke things open in the second half. INJURY UPDATES For the Trail Blazers, Jusuf Nurkic (left leg) is out for Tuesday's Game 2 vs. OKC. In 58 regular season games with the Blazers, Melo averaged 15.4 points and 6.3 rebounds. Box Score - Oklahoma City Thunder (115) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (118) - April 23, 2019 “What he meant to the team and the way he conducted himself, the way he played. Honestly, I think that I found a home in Portland. Head coach Terry Stotts added that he was "honored to have been able to coach him. Honestly, I think that I found a home in Portland. He’s a smart player that knows Stotts’ system and could be brought back on a minimum deal if other targets elect to not sign with Portland.
-- Carmelo Anthony Damian Lillard seconded that thought from Melo from his home in Portland. But Rip City (even the Lakers) was sure to send their love to the Blazers on social media as the clock struck midnight on their NBA championship hopes.Continue to check back to our website throughout the night for game analysis and postgame sound from our Insider Dwight Jaynes and Reporter Jamie Hudson.The most peculiar season in Trail Blazers history came to an end on Saturday, some 311 days after it started.The Los Angeles Lakers sent the Blazers home with a 131-122 win in Game 5 to close out the series 4-1.Portland’s year ended without its franchise player, without fans in attendance and in a gym 2,500 miles from the “home” team’s storied arena. What makes even cooler being the best all around player in the league for 17 yrs! Obviously in the bubble he made some big shots and got us into the playoffs. Trent Jr. needs one more season with the team to earn full bird rights but the franchise could re-negotiate and extend Trent Jr. with cap space. It was an interesting season. Dame’s at the top for me. Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum combine for 62 points as Portland takes Game 2 against Oklahoma City. Anthony himself has been able to stop and reflect too. Saturday was a fitting tribute to the Melo Experiment, a high-scoring, limited defense affair punctuated with plenty of mid-post magic.“The fact that Melo came and played for the Blazers was special,” Blazers coach Terry Stotts said.
Given his familiarity with the system and hustle on the boards, the Blazers may look to bring him back on a minimum deal. But a new name was added to the injury report about an hour before the game started as Wenyen Gabriel was ruled out with right quad tendinitis. One of those starters who missed the opener back in October was Jusuf Nurkic, who didn’t make his season debut until the games restarted in Orlando. Heading into the bubble, Melo slimmed down to become 'Skinny Melo' and moved back to the small forward position in the Blazers starting lineup where he excelled as the Blazers third scoring option behind Damian Lillard and CJ McCollumSpeaking of the former, Melo called Lillard "the top guy [he's] played with." Oklahoma City went up 105-90 with 7:45 left on Dennis Schroder's pullup jumper as Portland struggled. Portland's marathon season is finally over after a 131-122 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers Saturday night.The season that started on Oct. 23, 2019, ended 10 months and six days later -- or a total of 311 days -- with most of the last two months inside a quarantine bubble.The defeat ended Portland’s playoff run at five games, after an eight-game seeding schedule and one play-in game.It was a season full of landmark events, the majority of which were not happy ones for the Trail Blazers and their fans:Portland began the season without injured center Jusuf Nurkic and he did not return until the seeding games.Starting power forward Zach Collins was injured in the season’s third game and he didn’t return until the seeding games.Portland lost 12 of its first 17 games and never quite recovered. But, McCollum wasn’t the only one playing through an injury in Game 5.
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