The Portland Trail Blazers will begin their 2018-19 regular season schedule less than a month from now. As they do, they’ll face a burning question about starting guards Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, according to Haley O’Shaughnessy and Paolo Uggetti of The Ringer. The pair wrote an article posing one question for each of the 30 NBA franchises as they head into training camp, and Portland’s question plows familiar ground from this summer:
Uggetti: Splitting up the Blazers’ dynamic backcourt duo has long been pegged as the only way the franchise can reach a higher level.