The NBA Trade Deadline is exactly three weeks away, which means hypothetical trade ideas are all the rave. One Portland Trail Blazers trade idea comes via The Ringer’s Jonathan Tjarks, who suggests a deal centered on swapping CJ McCollum and Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon.
Tjarks highlights the often-said point about Portland’s undersized backcourt as a need for change:
He and Lillard seem to have a good relationship, and there doesn’t appear to be any friction about their place in the pecking order. The issue is more that they aren’t making each other better.