A pair of former Trail Blazers made the cut in a recent special mock draft from The Athletic. In the feature from The Athletic, four contributors drafted five-man teams of former players that would fit in today’s NBA. Both Rasheed Wallace and Cliff Robinson were selected early in the process.
Before the mock draft unfolded, the ground rules for eligibility were outlined.
For purposes of this exercise, we have limited the draft pool to anyone who was draft-eligible between 1985, the first year of the lottery, and 2004, the last draft before the hand check was eliminated.