The Portland Trail Blazers will have an array of choices before them when they select 11th in the 2025 NBA Draft on Wednesday evening. In the latest edition of his substack [subscription required], NBA writer Jake Fischer speculates that Portland’s choices will boil down to a pair of point guards with international roots.
Fischer writes:
I believe Portland is going to select Egor Demin or Kasparas Jakucionis. I must add that the Trail Blazers have been one of the black boxes in the late lottery —difficult for teams, in other words, to crack for a read — and I’ve also heard the Pacific Northwest (as well as Toronto) as a potential landing spot for Noa Essengue.