Simons, Musa Highlight Portland's Final Workout Before The Draft

The Portland Trail Blazers, owners of the 24th overall pick, held a sixth and final predraft workout at their practice facility in Tualatin Tuesday morning, which served as the unofficial end of the evaluation portion of their preparations for the 2018 NBA Draft. All told, 30 players, ranging from those projected to go in the middle of the first round to those expected to go undrafted, came through to workout in front of the franchise's decision-makers.There's no good way to tell if Trail Blazers president of basketball operations Neil Olshey or his staff saw anything in Tuesday's run that might have swayed their decision going into Thursday's draft -- the team doesn't typically take questions from the media after workouts  -- but there's reason to believe that two players, Anfernee Simons and Dzanan Musa, might have been the focus of the final workout. For Simons, a 6-4, 180 pound guard who sat out a season after decommitting to Louisville, the Tuesday's workout was his second with the Trail Blazers after taking part in a previous run on June 4. Simons is the only player Portland worked out twice at their facility in the run up to the 2018 Draft, though it isn't exactly uncommon for the Blazers to invite players to multiple workouts.