After the 30-point loss to the Phoenix Suns, the direction of the Portland Trail Blazers feels more clear than it has in recent weeks, and looking at the rest of the season, Bleacher Report’s Sean Highkin says that there is one question the Blazers are facing right now: “Where will their lottery picks end up?”
The Blazers made their intentions for the rest of the season clear when they traded veterans CJ McCollum, Norman Powell and Robert Covington for picks and young players at the trade deadline; they made them even clearer last week when they responded to a four-game winning streak by shutting down starting center Jusuf Nurkic for the next four weeks with plantar fasciitis.