Earlier today we posted an intriguing question about the Portland Trail Blazers. We asked who the most underrated player in team history was. As I published, it occurred to me that you can’t open that subject without its companion question. Who is the most overrated Trail Blazers player ever?

This one is a little trickier. “Underrated” implies a lifting of the player in question. He deserves more credit than he got. “Overrated” almost implies a corresponding taking down, pulling a player off of his pedestal. Very quickly that turns into calling the player bad, which is not at all the point. Instead we’re asking who gets a little more credit in popular lore than his play or impact might strictly deserve?

To keep this post from going negative, let’s remember that to get that much credit in

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