Ben Simmons, Portland Trail Blazers, Philadelphia 76ers (Photo by Mitchell Leff/Getty Images)
The Portland Trail Blazers have been repeatedly linked to Ben Simmons this offseason and for good reason. The Blazers are in desperate need of a shakeup and Simmons’s future is clearly not with the Philadelphia 76ers.
That being said, the prospect of trading for Simmons draws mixed reactions from the Rip City faithful and probably within the front office as well. For all of his strengths, the Australian star point guard has just as many apparent weaknesses. From our Twitter poll, over 41 percent of voters said that they either wouldn’t trade CJ McCollum and picks for Ben Simmons or that it would depend on how many draft assets are outgoing.