The Portland Trail Blazers are among the teams that will likely be in competition for the services of Cooper Flagg, the projected top pick for the 2025 NBA Draft.

Flagg, a freshman at Duke this season, showed flashes of his abilities this summer while participating with Team USA Select, the group of players brought into training camp ahead of the Paris Olympics.

Bleacher Report draft analyst Jonathan Wasserman imagined the scenario where Flagg joins the Blazers in the 2025-26 campaign.

Adding Cooper Flagg would likely force the Portland Trail Blazers to make a trade, if they haven’t already by the 2025 draft.

With a new franchise player and Jerami Grant and Deandre Ayton on separate timelines as recent top-10 picks Scoot Henderson, Shaedon Sharpe and Donovan Clingan, it would be time to make some moves.

The future Blazers would show Clingan protecting the rim and Flagg flying around defensively.

Offensively, Flagg would start off in more of a play-finishing and spot-up role with Henderson and Anfernee Simons (deal expires in 2027) taking most of the ball-handling and creation reps. Still, if Grant leaves, Flagg would receive plenty of usage. And depending on how much Henderson improves his shooting, decision-making and finishing, Flagg could quickly steal touches and play more of a point-forward role early on.

The Blazers, or any team for that matter, would be lucky to have Flagg on board. He would immediately become the team’s best prospect as a legitimate player worth building around.

He’s already proven to be one of the potential rising stars in the NBA, and he is just a teenager. If the Blazers can roster him while he is in his 20’s, the franchise may have its next big star.