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Portland Trail Blazers: The Rise, Fall, (and Rise?) of Gary Trent Jr.

Gary Trent, Portland Trail Blazers (Photo by Jevone Moore/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Gary Trent Jr. has become one of the feel-good stories of the Portland Trail Blazers season. But he had to overcome quite a bit to get to this point.

Portland Trail Blazers guard Gary Trent Jr. has been a star for majority of his young career. With myself growing up in Minnesota, I was able to watch some of his high school games and every one of them was packed. His senior season, he decided to transfer to Prolific Prep, a well-known basketball high school in Napa, California before committing to play for the Duke Blue Devils.