The Portland Trail Blazers have loaded up on future draft picks in trades with the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics in the Damian Lillard deal.
CBS Sports writer Sam Quinn listed four of those picks in a ranking of future draft selections, including the best of the bunch.
This version of the Bucks might be able to contend for another two or three years. This year might be it. It might already be over. But whenever it ends for this version of the team, it’s ending. There’s no backdoor short of, say, finding a star in second round of the draft or taking an enormous chance on a premium talent that comes with injury or off-court risks.