The Portland Trail Blazers finished with just 21 wins last season, their fewest since the 2005-06 campaign.

It felt like rock bottom for fans, but Bleacher Report writer Andy Bailey thinks there’s a level below that. He predicts that the team will only win 15 games in the upcoming season.

With apologies to Portland Trail Blazers fans, we’re pegging them as this season’s worst team (at least in terms of wins and losses).

With Malcolm Brogdon gone, Scoot Henderson figures to be more prominently featured. And though he had a respectable close to his first season, he still finished with the 939th-ranked box plus/minus among the 955 rookie campaigns of 1,000-plus minutes in the three-point era. It’s fair to expect him to be better, but it’s a long way from there to winning basketball.

There’s tons of development between now and whatever the peak looks like for Shaedon Sharpe, too.

And while there are a few veterans like Deandre Ayton, Jerami Grant and Anfernee Simons who could push Portland away from the league’s best lottery odds, trades of any or all of them before February’s deadline could be on the table.

The Blazers would join just a handful of teams in infamy winning only 15 games, but there’s reason to believe that the number could be higher.

Sure, the Blazers likely won’t be favored on most nights, but effort alone in today’s NBA makes it difficult for teams to only win that many games.

Portland should win more than 15, but they may come dangerously close to that number. Every team in the Western Conference figures to be competitive or at least eyeing a record better than last year while the Blazers should be fighting for the best draft position possible.

With 15 wins, they would be in prime position to potentially land Cooper Flagg with the No. 1 pick in next year’s draft.