The Portland Trail Blazers are off to a 5-5 start to their 2025-26 NBA regular season. The record is an improvement on their performances in recent years, especially when considering signature wins against the Oklahoma City Thunder and Denver Nuggets as part of the package. But .500 is a waypoint on the journey to success, not a destination. The up-and-down nature of Portland’s journey has at least one fan asking if the proverbial Blazers groundhog shouldn’t see the shadow of mediocrity and burrow back in for six more weeks (or months) of winter. That’s the subject of today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag.

Dave,

I’m enjoying the new Blazers as much as anybody but let’s not kid ourselves. The results are still not there. We all know mediocrity is the worst place to get stuck in the NBA. If we are

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