Sunday marks the first day NBA teams can make trades for players who were signed or acquired in the offseason, so naturally, many in this Trail Blazers mailbag submitted questions asking whether Neil Olshey was looking to make a move to help the depleted Blazers.



So when I ran into Olshey in the back hallways of the Moda Center before Tuesday’s game against New York, I posed the essence of your questions to him: How is he approaching the unofficial start to the trading season on Dec. 15?



“We are going to stay disciplined,” Olshey said. “That doesn’t mean we are not going to stay opportunistic, OK? But the bar for how big of an impact somebody has to make to really make an outcome-related impact is higher.”



What does “disciplined” mean, exactly?



“The discipline comes in that the starting lineup next year is Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, Rodney Hood, Zach Collins and Jusuf Nurkic,” Olshey said.