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The Portland Trail Blazers have a lot of problems. This is the team that was everyone’s preseason pick for the NBA Championship. With the additions of all-stars Dale Davis and Shawn Kemp it was an easy pick right? Not so fast... people forgot that there were 82 games and 3 rounds of playoffs before the finals would come. With the midseason addition of Rod Strickland the Blazers further solidified their position as the deepest team in the NBA. A couple years ago this was considered a good thing. And just a month later one of the Blazers "key" off season additions -- Shawn Kemp -- was checking into drug rehab. Around the same time as Kemp's embarrassing dilemma the Blazers emerging shooting guard, the always reliable garbage man style player: Bonzi Wells, was underg