The Portland Trail Blazers will enter their new season in about a month. As part of our ramp-up to the upcoming year, we’re asking a series of questions about the rotation and your views on its solidity. We’ve covered the centers and the power forwards so far. Today we take a look at small forwards hoping to crack the regular lineup.

Parsing out forwards and wings in the new NBA is hard, especially with teams like Portland who go with interchangeable–and often small–lineups. But for our purposes, we’re going to define the Blazers’ small forward corps as: Deni Avdija, Kris Murray, Rayan Rupert. We understand that Rupert is more naturally a guard, that Shaedon Sharpe could swing over in a three-guard lineup, that Toumani Camara also plays small forward, and that Avdija is a wing-forward and

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