Portland Trail Blazers

A rebuild was on the horizon for quite some time in Portland and with the team struggling due to Damian Lillard being out, the Trail Blazers decided to blow things up by trading Robert Covington, Norman Powell, and CJ McCollum. 

Now, the team is moving forward trying to build around Damian Lillard and Anfernee Simons, which is why the frontcourt could be a big point of emphasis in the offseason. 

What Portland has to barter with from the Knicks’ perspective is questionable at best, but they do have a ton of draft capital and some younger players like Josh Hart and Nassir Little that could be of interest to New York. 

If the Knicks are looking to continue building their young core of the future, then trading Julius Randle to the Portland Trail Blazers could be an avenue that opens up in the offseason since Portland is looking to “re-tool” instead of “rebuild” right now. 

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Pleasing Damian Lillard is their main priority right now, as the Trail Blazers have not given up hope of building a championship-caliber team around him. 

Re-signing Anfernee Simons to a new long-term deal is their main priority in the offseason, but with virtually no frontcourt heading into next season given that Jusuf Nurkic is a free agent, Julius Randle could be a player the Trail Blazers monitor the status of.