{"id":30916,"date":"2022-05-31T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/og-anunoby-potential-trail-blazers-target\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T19:17:27","slug":"og-anunoby-potential-trail-blazers-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/og-anunoby-potential-trail-blazers-target\/","title":{"rendered":"OG Anunoby: Potential Trail Blazers Target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"61Km1W\">In the lead-up to the 2022 NBA Draft, there remains question as to what the Portland Trail Blazers intend to do with the No. 7 selection. <\/p>\n<p id=\"6x1Dtb\">In his Offseason Intel article this morning, Bleacher Report&#8217;s Jake Fischer outlines on one potential idea, surrounding the team trading for the services of Toronto Raptors swingman OG Anunoby.<\/p>\n<p id=\"UVBY3e\">As Fischer reports, word had circulated that Anunoby grew dissatisfied with his role following the emergence of Rookie of the Year Scottie Barnes.  Anunoby, who had career-highs in points per game (17.1), assists (2.6), and tied for career-bests in rebounds per game (5.5) and steals (1.5), would be an ideal salary match for the Blazers. <\/p>\n<p id=\"IlnlP0\">As Fischer puts it: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"1tqV9x\">\u201cThe Trail Blazers remain widely expected to pursue trade scenarios with the No. 7 pick in order to add a complementary veteran alongside All-NBA guard Damian Lillard, and Anunoby is believed to be one of their primary targets along with Jerami Grant.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CnFZBt\">Both contracts would fit into Portland&#8217;s $ 20.9 million trade exception from the deal that sent CJ McCollum to New Orleans.  There&#8217;s a possibility Portland looks to create cap space to land a maximum-salary free agent such as Zach LaVine, but all indications point to the Blazers guaranteeing Josh Hart&#8217;s $ 12.9 million for next season, which would likely negate a major free-agency signing.  The deadline to guarantee Hart is June 25, two days after the NBA draft and nearly a week before free agency begins July 1. &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"BveC8V\">Using their trade exception for Anunoby would be on the table.  There&#8217;s also a sense of familiarity among the two teams;  the Blazers and Raptors engaged in trade discussions not long ago, in their Mar. 2021 deal featuring Gary Trent Jr., Rodney Hood, and Norman Powell.  In Anunoby, they&#8217;d be acquiring a player with legitimate two-way talent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the lead-up to the 2022 NBA Draft, there remains question as to what the Portland Trail Blazers intend to do with the No. 7 selection. In his Offseason Intel article this morning, Bleacher Report&#8217;s Jake Fischer outlines on one potential idea, surrounding the team trading for the services of Toronto Raptors swingman OG Anunoby. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/og-anunoby-potential-trail-blazers-target\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OG Anunoby: Potential Trail Blazers Target?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/jzXVonWPlO5JhBLIeMhcVGqWd-s=\/0x392:5472x3257\/fit-in\/1200x630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23598488\/1394876487.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/jzXVonWPlO5JhBLIeMhcVGqWd-s=\/0x392:5472x3257\/fit-in\/1200x630\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_asset\/file\/23598488\/1394876487.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}