Portland Trail Blazers’ starting center Jusuf Nurkic enters the season on the last year of his contract, making him a free agent at the end of this season.
Andy Bailey of Bleacher Report ranked Nurkic as the 10th-highest upcoming free agent on his updated free agency big board.
Nurkic rarely puts up the kind of individual stat lines that generate headlines or earn him national TV postgame interviews, but there’s a steadiness to his production and impact that has consistently made Portland better as long as he’s been there.
This season, in just 24.