The Portland Trail Blazers seem to be at a crossroads. On one hand, an All-NBA point guard in his prime is putting pressure on the team to load up for a run now. On the other, the Blazers have a budding teenage star in Shaedon Sharpe and the No. 3 pick in this month’s NBA Draft.
That’s an illusion, however. There is no chance the Trail Blazers will do anything other than their best to put a winning team around Damian Lillard, the best player in franchise history. That means using the third pick as the means to an upgrade that will give Lillard the co-star he has lacked for a long time.