Trail Blazers Kick Off Predraft Workouts With Jaylon Tyson, Adem Bona
In their first session since the lottery, Portland's front office hosted six prospects.
📍 TUALATIN, Ore. — Five weeks out from the draft, the Trail Blazers have started the process of hosting players for in-person workouts at their practice facility.
Thursday’s session, the first one since last weekend’s lottery, was a low-key affair. None of the six players they worked out are likely in play for their No. 7 overall pick. Only two of them, Cal wing Jaylon Tyson and UCLA center Adem Bona, are projected to be drafted at all—in the second round for Bona and potentially late first or early second for Tyson.
The other four prospects, WVU’s RaeQuan Battle, Kansas State’s Arthur Kaluma, Kentucky’s Ugonna Onyenso and Florida’s Will Richard, are deciding whether to stay in the draft or go back to school before the May 29 withdrawal deadline. If any of them decide to stay in the draft, they’ll almost definitely be undrafted free agents who could be angling for a Summer League or training camp invite somewhere.
In most cases, this is one of if not the first workouts these prospects have done since the predraft combine in Chicago last week, where in addition to scrimmaging in front of scouts and executives from all 30 teams, they met with some teams to start the get-to-know-you process and get feedback on what they need to improve on and where they might be projected to go in the draft.