This season's Portland Trail Blazers have not been good, they have only a 25-34 record, ranking tenth in the West, and it is actually difficult to enter the playoffs this season. Lillard has been injured, McCollum has been traded by the team, the team really does not have much competitiveness in the absence of core, even if they have recently won 4 consecutive games, it is difficult to pose any threat to the strong team!
The current news is that the Blazers still want to build a team with Lillard as the core, do not want to completely rebuild, and now it seems that the team wants to make a breakthrough and wait for next season! And recently, according to michael Scotto, the Trail Blazers and Nurkic are interested in reaching a contract extension after the end of the season!
In the summer of 2018, Nurkic signed a four-year, $48 million contract with the Trail Blazers, and by the end of the season, he will be a full free agent. Like Michael Scotto said, Nurkic will be one of the best centers in the offseason, probably second only to the Suns' interior Ayton!
At present, Nurkic can sign a four-year, $64.5 million contract with the Blazers, which is completely acceptable for the Blazers, and the average salary is around 16 million to leave the inside gate, which is indeed a good contract. And Nurkic is actually not so sought-after in the league, he has his own strengths, but also his own shortcomings, so if the parent team Blazers can give him a good big contract, he should also choose to stay in the team!
Next season we should still be able to see the combination of Lillard and Nurkic inside and out, the Blazers still maintain the absolute basic configuration of the team, and next season will start to make the final impact!