With the NBA Draft Lottery coming later this month, we are working on a series looking back at every possible Portland Trail Blazers pick solution and seeing how the team has performed in the past at the position.
After looking at the 10th pick, we now move on to the 8th pick since the Blazers have never held the 9th pick in their history.
In fact, the first-ever draft pick in franchise history was the 8th overall pick in 1970, when the team selected Geoff Petrie.
Petrie only played six seasons in his NBA career and made two All-Star games with the Blazers before the team traded him to the Atlanta Hawks in 1976 for Maurice Lucas.