With New Orleans Pelicans star Anthony Davis requesting a trade ahead of the Feb. 7 NBA Trade Deadline, speculation is running rampant about where he will end up (and if he’ll even be moved). Sean Highkin of Bleacher Report doesn’t offer a piece full of Trade Machine hypotheticals, but rather an explanation of why small-market teams, like the Portland Trail Blazers, should pursue a trade for Davis.
The Portland Trail Blazers, for example, are much like last year’s Raptors: a good-but-not-great team that will make the playoffs every year but is unlikely to make a real run as presently constructed.