Tinkering is over in Portland

Substantial change is next.

Good morning. Let’s basketball.

Miss Amelia Van Buren, Thomas Eakins, 1891

The Portland Trail Blazers will soon have a new general manager (see the Links section below), and some are taking the opportunity to push the idea that finally Damian Lillard will be traded to a more serious contender. I am skeptical that a new general manager’s first action in Po…