Portland Trail Blazers president of basketball operations Neil Olshey met with the media on Tuesday and took questions regarding the 2016-17 season and what's on the agenda for 2017-18.

"It's interesting; I think this is the first summer where we haven't had cap room since I've been here," Olshey told The Oregonian. "A couple times it was strategic. Either we had it and a couple times it was based on the departures of guys that we had looked to re-sign initially.

"I think a lot of the growth of the roster is going to come internally. We had the youngest team in the league this year. We had the youngest team in the playoffs for the second year in a row. So I think we have to grow internally, too."

Portland's starting backcourt had a terrific season and was sensational in the playoff series against the Golden State Warriors. Olsheyrates Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum highly and has no desire to trade either one of the guards.

"The odds of anything ever coming up of commensurate value is so hard to even fathom. I could give you the trite answer that nobody is untradable, but clearly they are," Olshey said.

Lillard, who made $24.32 million this season in the first year of his five-year, $140 million extension, averaged 27.8 points, 3.3 assists and 4.5 rebounds in the four games against Golden State.

McCollum signed his four-year, $106.6 million extension last summer and in 2017-18 he's set to make $23.96 million. In the 2017 playoffs, McCollum averaged 22.5 points, six rebounds and one assist.

-- Nick Silva