Two potential suitors for Jahlil Okafor's services could be off the board.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets, both of which have been mentioned as destinations for the 21-year-old Sixers big man, reportedly agreed on Sunday to swap big men.
Portland sends Mason Plumlee a 2018 second round pick for Nurkic and a 2017 first-rounder (via Memphis), league sources tell @TheVertical— Adrian Wojnarowski (@WojVerticalNBA) February 12, 2017
Portland sent center Mason Plumlee and a 2018 second-round draft pick to Denver in exchange for center Jusuf Nurkic and a 2017 first-round draft pick. HoopsHype.com's Alex Kennedy on Saturday night reported the Blazers and Nuggets both had talks with the Sixers about Okafor, whom Brett Brown held out of the Sixers' win over the visiting Heat on Saturday night because of the swirling trade rumors.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Keith Pompey reported earlier on Sunday that the Sixers' talks with the Nuggets revolving around Okafor had stalled.
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While things could start up again quickly, it appears Sixers' conversations w/ #DenverNuggets about Jahlil Okafor have stalled. #StayTuned— Keith Pompey (@PompeyOnSixers) February 12, 2017
That leaves the Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Pelicans as the two most-talked about destinations for Okafor before the Feb. 23 NBA trade deadline.
The third-overall pick out of Duke in the 2015 draft, Okafor has played in 37 games so far in his second year with the Sixers. He's averaging 11.6 points and 4.8 rebounds a night in 23.2 minutesper game
This season, Okafor has missed 27 games, some because of minor injury, but many as a coaches' decision as Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid have taken over as Brown's trusted big men.
