We are returning to our new offseason series Blazers vs Blazers with an intriguing, controversial matchup for our second installment.
I’m talking about two Portland Trail Blazers centers who were traded for each other just a season ago: current Blazers center Deandre Ayton and current Phoenix Suns center Jusuf Nurkic, who played for Portland from 2017 to 2023.
As a reminder, this series matches up former or current Blazers players against each other and simply asks: Who was better during their time in a Blazers uniform? For clarification, here’s another way to view the question: If you were an NBA general manager building a team from scratch, which of the two players would you want on your roster?