After watching Wade Baldwin IV help the Blazers win the 2018 Las Vegas Summer League title, I wondered how much we’d see of him once the games started counting. He made the All-Summer League Second Team and put up 14 points and six assists in the championship game against the Lakers.
So what role did he end up playing? Baldwin appeared in 16 games for Portland in 2018–19, averaging just under six minutes a game. In February, the Blazers sent him, Nik Stauskas and two second-round picks to Cleveland for Rodney Hood.