Jusuf Nurkic has if nothing else taken advantage of the many injuries at the Damian Lillard (abdominal injury) plans to have surgery”>Portland Trail Blazers for relaunch its quotations in a crucial year, the one in which will become a free agent at the end of the season.
Con i Blazers decimati dagli stop di Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, Cody Zeller, Larry Nance Jr and now also of the unfortunate Nassir Little, Nurkic is playing perhaps his best career season and keeping Portland alongside Anfernee Simons in the running for a place in the play-ins. For the Bosnian center one season from 14.7 points and 10.9 rebounds on average, with 2.7 assists per game and 54% shooting, figures that in the last 15 games (8-6 the record for the Trail Blazers) have risen to over 18 points and 13 rebounds with 3.5 assists and 6.6 average free throws per game.
And figures that will make it a wanted player already at the trade deadline of the NBA market on February 10, with the Blazers having to decide whether or not keep chasing the play-ins (the Lakers, ninth, are just 2.5 games ahead and on Tuesday there will be a direct clash, or avoid that the first choice at the draft NBA 2022 go fall into the arms of the Houston Rockets. Jusuf Nurkic, for its part, does not think about the market nor to a trade and it is said to the contrary willing to stay in Portland even beyond this season, receiving “reassurance” from the team’s interim general manager Joe Cronin.
“Nothing is ever 100% sure, but I think for where we are now at the team level it makes no sense for me to trade away. Anything is possible, I want to stay here at least as long as Damian Lillard stays, and then we play to win. But if you want to go in a different direction, then I’ll accept the decisions“.
