Heading into the 2021-22 NBA season, the play of center Jusuf Nurkic remains one of the biggest question marks for the Portland Trail Blazers. In HoopsHype’s Top 22 Center Rankings for the 2021-22 Season, Nurkic came in at No. 13 with room to grow.
HoopsHype writer Frank Urbina said Nurkic likely would have placed higher on this list had he not suffered his career-altering leg injury in 2019, but the Portland big man still has enough offensive and defensive skills to go around.
But since returning, the big Bosnian hasn’t quite looked like that version of himself.