The Portland Trail Blazers will have a revamped look this coming season after four starters have departed by either trade or free agency during the offseason. These moves have to be tough for head coach Terry Stotts, but he continues to back management in the decision to rebuild. From Dwight Jaynes of CSNNW.com:

"When I watched Stotts talk about next season, my first thought was for all those people in the Trail Blazers' business side charged with the responsibility of selling sponsorships and tickets for next season. It's can't be a pleasant to look forward to once again trying to sell the future of this team knowing that this is the second major rebuild of the roster in the last four years. If you don't think the city is skeptical about the Trail Blazers' future, you haven't been listening. But Stotts, who has as much public credibility as anyone in the Portland organization right now, put his personal seal of approval on GM Neil Olshey's plan and talked about his excitement about next season. And don't tell me Stotts HAD to say these things because a lot of coaches wouldn't have done it. They would have just shut up in public and gone to work, privately mumbling a lot of nasty things to media willing to use it without attribution. I'm sure Stotts was genuine in what he said, too -- because he always is. But I still am not sure how much 'fun' it's going to be for him to go through this process."