[1] After spending their first 25 years at the Memorial Coliseum, the Trail Blazers began playing at the new Rose Garden Arena this season.
[2][3] The team acquired the eighth overall pick in the 1995 NBA draft from the Detroit Pistons, and selected Shawn Respert out of Michigan State University, but soon traded him to the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for top draft pick Gary Trent out of Ohio University.
On the defensive side, Buck Williams averaged 7.3 points and 5.8 rebounds per game off the bench, and Chris Dudley contributed 5.1 points, and led the team with 9.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game.
Carlesimo during the season,[28][29][30][31] was traded along with Grant to the Washington Bullets, whom Grant used to play for,[32][33][34][35] while Williams signed as a free agent with the New York Knicks,[36][37][38] and Robinson was traded to the Minnesota Timberwolves.
[39][40] In addition, this season saw the Trail Blazers fail to sell out a home game, ending their 814-game sellout streak, for the first time since 1977;[41] this streak would be the longest in NBA history until the Dallas Mavericks broke it during the 2019-20 season.