He was one of the all-time great Trail Blazers, but the legacy of LaMarcus Aldridge in Portland will never be defined by all the points, and all the rebounds he secured during his nine seasons here.
It will be defined by the hurt.
The hurt that Aldridge felt from being underappreciated. And the hurt he brought upon the fan base with his departure.
His Portland legacy is a complicated subject, one that is layered and difficult to grasp in part because it’s hard to take anything Aldridge has said about Portland at face value. In 2014, he said he wanted to stay in Portland and cement his legacy as the greatest Blazer of all time… then he chose to leave for San Antonio less than a year later in free agency. And while in San Antonio, he said he would like to one day reunite with
