Overview
- Portland exercised rookie-scale options for 2026-27 on Scoot Henderson (fourth year), Donovan Clingan (third year) and Kris Murray (fourth year).
- The guaranteed salaries are Henderson $13,585,523, Clingan $7,519,920 and Murray $5,315,004.
- Henderson remains sidelined by a left hamstring tear with an estimated recovery timeline of four to eight weeks.
- Clingan enters his second season as the starting center after earning All-Rookie Second Team honors.
- After extending Sharpe (~$90 million) and Camara (~$81–82 million), coach Chauncey Billups set an opening-night lineup of Sharpe, Camara, Clingan, Jrue Holiday and Deni Avdija.