The Portland Trail Blazers have an important NBA Free Agency period approaching with several free agents, including starting center Jusuf Nurkic, possibly hitting the market and looking to cash in. Besides Nurkic, role players Ed Davis, Shabazz Napier, and Pat Connaughton just finished the last season of their contracts, with Napier and Connaughton likely becoming restricted free agents. A team with cap space might make signing a player in a position of need their free-agency priority, but Portland isn’t so lucky.
Given this, Zach Buckley of Bleacher Report makes re-signing Nurkic the team’s Plan A:
Full-season Nurkic never found the spark half-season Nurkic provided down the stretch in 2016-17.