The Portland Trail Blazers continue as one of the most-mentioned teams in pre-draft NBA trade talk. The #3 overall pick in the 2023 NBA Draft, the potential availability of starters Anfernee Simons and Jusuf Nurkic, plus a stated mandate to build a contender around All-NBA guard Damian Lillard have combined to put Portland on the lips of every analyst and trade-machine jockey out there.
Today two more interesting suggestions came out from national writers. The first was a trade fragment from Rafael Barlowe of NBA Big Board [subscription required]. He suggests that the Indiana Pacers are quite interested in potential Top 3 pick Brandon Miller and would be amenable to working out a deal with the Blazers or the Charlotte Hornets (owners of the second overall pick).