The 2023 NBA Trade Deadline is one month and two days away and the Portland Trail Blazers are sitting on a 19-19 record, looking for all the world like an incomplete team in need of a deal to boost their future chances. The caveat to that theory is that Justise Winslow, Nassir Little, and Gary Payton II—the entire middle of their rotation—is injured. They haven’t been a whole team for a while. The asterisk to that caveat is that Winslow, Josh Hart, and Jerami Grant all have (potentially) expiring contracts coming up at the end of the season and the Blazers aren’t likely to retain all three, nor the rest of the roster intact if they don’t start playing better.
Predict: Will the Trail Blazers Make a Move at the NBA Trade Deadline?
