The Portland Trail Blazers introduced their three new rookies on Saturday and did so with the usual hyping up of each player selected during Thursday night’s draft.
But general manager Joe Cronin went a bit further than the norm with this group. He proclaimed that the Blazers picked three players they had rated as lottery picks with selections No. 3 (guard Scoot Henderson), No. 23 (forward Kris Murray) and No. 43 (Rayan Rupert).