The Portland Trail Blazers may be entering the unknown after Damian Lillard requested a trade, but they will have a leg or two to stand on if and when he’s dealt.
Some may argue that the Blazers began a “quiet rebuild,” last year when Portland selected Shaedon Sharpe with the No. 7 overall pick.
Sharpe was a slow burner in his rookie season after adjusting to life in the NBA following a year where he sat out of collegiate basketball, but he began to get things going later in his first professional campaign.
“Even in a league littered with world-class athletes, Sharpe might be the bounciest of the bunch,” Bleacher Report’s Zach Buckley writes.