Last week, a discussion-starter trade sending Kevin Love to the Portland Trail Blazers was proposed. Love’s Oregon roots and the fact that he plays a position of need have made Love-to-Portland hypothetical trades common in recent years, with many writers putting their own spin on what to include.
However, Mike Richman recently reported on the Locked On Blazers podcast that the Blazers “at least made phone calls” about Love last summer. Portland’s almost $13 million trade exception generated from the Allen Crabbe trade in 2017 was set to expire last July, so the Blazers called around the league to see if they could land a big-money player, Richman says.