The 2020-21 season has unfortunately gone the way many recent seasons have for the Portland Trail Blazers, with injuries piling up to some of their top players leaving Terry Stotts to shuffle his rotations to try and piece together a winner around Damian Lillard.

Jusuf Nurkić suffered a wrist fracture last week in a game against the Pacers, which will sideline the starting big man for eight weeks as he heals and rehabs his way back. Over the weekend, even more bad news arrived when CJ McCollum left Portland’s win over Atlanta with what was initially diagnosed as a sprained left foot, but further testing and another MRI revealed a hairline fracture that will keep McCollum in a boot for the next four weeks before he is re-evaluated.