The Portland Trail Blazers trading Damian Lillard and Jusuf Nurkic in a three-team deal for Deandre Ayton, Jrue Holiday and additional picks and players gave the NBA media the biggest trade of the offseason to grade.
If you want a good rundown of grades, Alex Tam of SBLiveOR tweeted a good rundown. Most national publications fell in the “B” range with a couple of “A’s” and an incomplete rounding out the list. Here’s how some other publications and personalities assessed Portland’s return on the deal.
Channing Frye Gives Blazers a Firm ‘A’
Former Blazer Channing Frye took to Twitter to laud Blazers general manager Joe Cronin on what his patience yielded in return for his franchise player and valued center:
saying Portland got anything less than a A is flat out wrong
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