Should the Portland Trail Blazers offload their priciest player to this East club? That'd be starting center Deandre Ayton. The 7-footer out of Arizona has been out since the Trail Blazers' 134-89 blowout defeat at the hands of the ailing Memphis Grizzlies on November 10 with a finger injury.

Chief among them — though harder to trade than some — is Deandre Ayton, the Trail Blazers' most expensive player. The 6-foot-11 big man, selected with the No. 1 pick in a load