The Portland Trail Blazers may understand how invaluable forward Robert Covington’s play was during the 2020-21 season, but to the national eye his contributions may have gone unnoticed. In Dan Favale of Bleacher Report’s list of Every NBA Team’s Most Underrated Player, he spotlighted Covington as Portland’s unsung representative.
Favale noted that followers of these teams most likely wouldn’t consider these players underrated, but his list is composed of players who didn’t get enough love on the national stage.
According to Favale, the biggest reason for Covington’s lack of recognition was because he couldn’t single-handedly fix one of the league’s worst defenses.