The NBA lottery is about a week away (May 16) and the Portland Trail Blazers will be hoping to land the No. 1 pick.

On the latest episode of the Blazer Focused podcast, Aaron Fentress of The Oregonian/OregonLive, and Craig Birnbach discuss lottery fever amongst many other topics.

They hit on:

- Damian Lillard showing up at Phoenix-Denver playoff game. It means nothing but let’s pretend it does for the fun of it.

- Player reviews: We go through about a dozen Blazers and what their future with the team looks like.

- Should the Blazers consider at least talking to coach Mike Budenholzer, fired by Milwaukee?

- Fact or Fentress is back. Would you trade Victor Wembanyama under any circumstances?

- Much more.

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