On February 22, Beijing time, the Portland Trail Blazers completed four operations a day, officially cut Dennis Smith, 4 years and 5.8 million US dollars to regular two-way contract players, 2 years of two-way contract to develop the league averaged 22+ players per game and signed Spurs abandoned players on a ten-day contract.
The Blazers officially announced the layoff of Dennis Smith, tweeted and said goodbye to Smith: Thank you and wish you all the best.
The 24-year-old Dennis Smith has played in 37 games for the Trail Blazers this season, started four games, averaged 17.2 minutes per game, averaged 5.6 points, 2.4 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.2 steals; Smith's elbow ulnar collateral ligament was torn and missed 3-4 weeks, cut after injury, and is paid $1.79 million this season; so far, he has played for the Lone Rangers, Pistons and Trail Blazers.
According to Warnarowski, Trendon Watford signed a four-year, $5.8 million contract with the Blazers, including two seasons of unsafe contracts; so far this season, Watford has played 33 games for the Trail Blazers, averaging 4.5 points and 3.2 rebounds in 12.6 minutes per game.
According to ESPN fame Warnaroski, the Blazers will sign a 10-day contract with Drew Ubanks; were traded to the Raptors in the previous Spurs trade with the Raptors, and then Ubanks was cut; so far this season, Ubanks has averaged 12.1 minutes per game, 4.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 1.0 assists; the Blazers have signed Ubanks with difficult exceptions.
The Blazers also signed a two-year two-way contract with development league guard Brandon Williams, who averaged 22.8 points per game in the development league this season and signed a 10-day contract with the Blazers this season after Watford turned a two-way slot.
It is worth mentioning that Lillard misses CJ McCollum again.
Damien Lillard replaced his Instagram account avatar with a comic photo with his former teammate CJ McCollum, in which CJ's expression was suspected to be laughing and crying, and Lillard hooked CJ's shoulder; McCollum wrote in reply to the fans' dynamics: Lifelong friends, the truth is rare.
The era of the two-gun was officially over after the McCollum Trail Blazers traded to the Pelicans; Lillard is still recuperating, and the Blazers are 10th in the West with 25 wins and 34 losses.