Jusuf Nurkic’s return to the Trail Blazers’ lineup appears imminent after a year-long injury absence. Re-inserting Nurkic to the rotation is set to trigger shifts in coach Terry Stotts’ game plan. At the top of the list of changes: the role of current starting center Hassan Whiteside.
On Friday, Stotts explained to NBC Sports Northwest’s Jamie Hudson that he hasn’t looked that far ahead.
“To be honest, I haven’t given it a lot of thought,” Stotts said of how his big man rotation will look with Nurkic back.