Portland Trail Blazers NBA mock draft: Jalen Duren, AJ Griffin and Shaedon Sharpe

It's NBA Mock Draft season and it's time to take a look at which prospects the Trail Blazers might target in the 2022 NBA draft. But first there was a game for the ages Monday night in Portland that nobody wanted to win. The Blazers lost a tank off to the Oklahoma City Thunder in overtime in a game in which both teams had just eight available players. That followed the news of earlier Monday when the Blazers officially ruled out Anfernee Simons, Jusuf Nurkic and Eric Bledsoe for the remainder of the season. It's that time of year when teams are chasing draft odds not victories. Those draft odds are starting to take shape which means it's time to look around the web to the latest NBA mock drafts and see who the draft experts have the Blazers targeting with their two potential lottery picks, Could it be Kentucky's Shaedon Sharpe or Kansas' Ochai Agbaji? What about bit man Jalen Duren from Memphis or sharpshooter AJ Griffin from Duke? Perhaps versatile big man Jeremy Sochan from Baylor could be a mid-lottery add for the Blazers? We run down the latest from the draft prognosticators. Finally, a brief history of Blazers draft picks looking back at the last decade of Portland's draft selections. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices