It feels like all eyes are on the Portland Trail Blazers as the franchise finds itself navigating a delicate balance between appeasing a Damian Lillard trade request and charting a course for the future.
Amid rumors of Lillard’s departure, there’s a strategic necessity to include the team’s center, Jusuf Nurkic, in any potential deal.
While we don’t know what the trade package involving Lillard will be, it’s clear that he will command a “star-level return package.”
Front offices talking to Portland today were left with impression that GM Joe Cronin is pursuing a star-level return package for Damian Lillard – and that Cronin plans to look well beyond the Miami Heat to find one.