The Athletic’s Shams Charania dropped an interesting little nugget on his NBA Inside Pass column on Monday. Buried in the noise about what will happen with Andre Drummond, Charania noted that the Portland Trail Blazers very own Anfernee Simons is officially drawing interest from teams around the league for the flashes he’s shown. In classic trade jargon, teams are now “monitoring” him.
It’s probably all just noise, but it’s not unwarranted. The third-year guard is coming off a difficult season with Portland, one where advanced stats had him as one of the worst rotation players in the league.