As we work our way through the Portland Trail Blazers offseason of 2025, an intriguing question has come to my mind. Usually people ask me the Mailbag questions, but today I’m going to ask all of you.
As we look at Trail Blazers players throughout history, an interesting reality presents itself. The actual play and/or contributions of players on the court doesn’t always align with the credit they get. Some players get a huge amount of notice and/or memory among Blazers fans. Others are quickly forgotten even if they were really good for the franchise.
That forms the core of my question: if you had to name the most underrated Trail Blazers player ever, who would you nominate?
Let’s define terms for a second. Underrated does not imply good or bad necessarily. Like we just said, it measure