[2][3] The team also had the seventeenth overall pick in the 1994 NBA draft, and selected Aaron McKie out of Temple University.
[4][5][6][7] The Trail Blazers started the regular season by defeating the Los Angeles Clippers in their first two games, which were played overseas in Yokohama, Japan.
[16] On February 14, 1995, with the Trail Blazers out of serious contention for the championship, the team honored Drexler's request to be traded to a contender, sending him along with three-point specialist Tracy Murray to the defending NBA champion Houston Rockets in exchange for forward Otis Thorpe.
[29] However, in the playoffs, the Trail Blazers were swept in the Western Conference First Round by a 0–3 margin against the Phoenix Suns.
[30][31][32][33] Following the season, Thorpe was traded to the Detroit Pistons,[34][35][36][37] while Porter signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Timberwolves,[38][39][40][41] Kersey was left unprotected in the 1995 NBA Expansion Draft, where he was selected by the newly expansion Toronto Raptors,[42][43][44][45][46] and Mark Bryant signed with the Houston Rockets.