The Portland Trail Blazers and the Washington Wizards have a lot in common this NBA offseason.
Both teams are built around a guard. In both cases, those guards are the subject of constant trade rumors. Many observers feel that each team ought to trade its franchise player and rebuild.
What if only one team decided to do so? If the Blazers insist on continuing forward with Damian Lillard, and the Wizards are ready to move on from Bradley Beal, could these two sides make a swap?
It feels feasible. The Blazers spent 2021-22 functioning as a rebuilding team. Apparently, their preferred course of action is to use the assets they acquired to land win-now pieces to put around Lillard this summer.
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Beal would be an ambitious target, but the Portland Trial Blazers may have the ammunition to make it happen.
Here are three ways such an exchange could potentially look.