Offseason reports touting Nassir Little’s summer workouts have become an annual tradition among Portland Trail Blazers scribes. This week, Jacked Ramsay’s Danny Marang offered this year’s instalment suggesting “Nas has looked incredible physically”.
The yearly rigmarole invariably raises the hopes of Blazers fans before a soul-crushing ailment sidelines the athletic wing during the season. This lack of durability has resulted in Little playing 192 out of a possible 310 regular season games over the past four seasons and only once playing more than 50 games.
The list of annoying injuries and illnesses faced by the North Carolina product has truly been the definition of bad luck.