BLACKFEET 2010 wrote:Blazers have waived Ezeli.
Not sure how that factors.
It doesn't. His career is over.
http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2017/06/portland_trail_blazers_waive_center_festus_ezeli.html
Ezeli, who signed a 2-year, $15.6 million deal with the Blazers last July, never played a game for Portland. The Blazers had to waive Ezeli prior to 2 p.m. on Friday or his $7.73 million salary for next season would become fully guaranteed. He will be paid $1 million next season and that money will count as part of the Blazers' salary total for next season.
"We can't have that kind of a risk again to have a roster spot at a critical position for someone that ... we don't have a body of work with him," Blazers' President of Basketball Operations Neil Olshey said in April, indicating Ezeli's Portland career was already over.
Prior to training camp, Ezeli received injections of a bone marrow aspirate concentrate and Orthovisc in his left knee to ease pain and improve mobility. But he never got on the court outside of one practice in October.
