Year in and year out, Portland Trail Blazers superstar Damian Lillard makes his intentions clear that regardless of what other superstar talents are doing, he intends to grind away with the team that took a chance on him in the 2012 NBA Draft. Though, given their current situation, that hasn’t deterred NBA insiders from, at the very least, entertaining the idea of the Blazers going all-in on their asset-building retool, dealing even him away in the process.
In his analysis of the 2022 NBA Draft, The Athletic’s Cole Huff picked out three teams — the Blazers included — that have considerable questions worth answering in the lead-up to next month’s Draft (subscription required).