Donovan Clingan Selected No. 7 Overall By Portland Trail Blazers I 2024 NBA Draft Grades I CBS Sport

The CBS Sports HQ crew give their grade for the Trail Blazers selecting Donovan Clingan No. 7 overall in the 2024 NBA Draft.
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[@Armenian5b]

Great pickup at #7 for Portland. He's joining a ton of talent and building with Scoot and Shaeden!

[@kobiiboksireficul]

And Deni

[@mrmillennium2697]

Charlotte could have got him they are crazy

[@rosecityusa6120]

​@@kobiiboksireficul.. and Deni.. straight W for us in Rip City USA aka Rose City. Lez Gooo #TrailBlazers ❤️🖤🩶

[@leftovers2go198]

Deni is the key as he is the Point Forward and can be the playmaker. No more trapping Simons and Scott or Shaedon

[@Daniel_Capital]

@@leftovers2go198 "deni is the key." Yikes, what a team lmao

[@leftovers2go198]

Don't forget, they got Deni too from the Wizards. A Point Forward that can help free up Shaedon and Simons

[@gregbors8364]

Too bad the Blazers missed out on Knecht at #14 but they made the right decision in getting a proven power forward with Avdija in exchange for that pick. Now they can put Grant and Ayton on the market and secure even more first-round picks. The future is now looking bright for the Blazers.

[@taylorleegang]

It woulda been nice to knecht but we’re hurting at the 4. I’d imagine we run scoot ant and toumani. Or sharpe over toumani. Getting knecht wouldn’t get that much PT if he came over here

[@zebgunnarsson1302]

Ayton shouldn’t be traded… Simons should! Ayton will play PF

[@TheOceanMan-xc7qp]

I cannot believe he fell all the way to 7...My lord he will help the Blazers immensely...Deni will team up with him for some easy buckets, and the Blazer guards will provide many lobs not to mention greatly benefit from his pick and rolls

[@nickvega591]

Just met him and his whole family very wholesome people!

[@GeorgeConner69420]

Scoot, Simons, Avdija, Shaedon and Ayton aint too bad of a young core with Cling coming off the bench with Jabari and whatever guard rotation they do. Id imagine Grant is gone

[@dylancoe120]

Ayton gone too 😂😂

[@ded4evrr]

​@@dylancoe120Nah

[@leftovers2go198]

@@dylancoe120 Ayton will move to PF and hit his mid range just like Aldridge

[@bizonc]

Agree but I think we should trade Scoot.

[@leftovers2go198]

@@bizonc Trade a 19years old? Maybe get a new coach first

[@TorontoTondo]

Lezz go cling kong!

[@gavihacohen]

I'm freaking out I can't believe we got clingan

[@KD_SWAGGER]

You can't go wrong with Donovan Clingan. At worst, he's going to protect the rim for you.

[@shawnzzz]

I hope the Blazers keep Grant and Ayton too. They have an exciting team. But it is very young and unexperienced and it will take a FEW YEARS to develop and grow together as a team. Be patient! I am happy.

[@rileymcphee9429]

It's wild how many guys fell to the second round and the Blazers will get shots at too, with 34 & 40.

[@Habeev07]

CHOMCHE

[@letitiaparent5159]

Congratulations Donovan! Good luck in your NBA Career. We are so proud of you!!

[@deanfirnatine7814]

One of the three steals of the draft at #7, the others being Topic at #12, without the injury, which he should heal fine from, he was predicted probably top three, huge steal for OKC and the other steal was Knecht falling shockingly to #17 Lakers, he was the best sure thing scorer in the draft, all just because he is 23 and the current fad in the NBA is only drafting 18-19 year olds that have usually proven nothing on the court but just on supposed potential, this fad will cause more busts than ever in draft history.

[@billybob9277]

Knecht woulda went to blazers at 14 if Deni never happened 💯

[@chinaiwei]

What a gift!

[@ieronimo18]

Clingan is going to be really good. Very talented, and he's going to work extremely hard. He's prepared to shine after back-to-back championships at UConn under the best college coaching staff in the USA!

[@kerryfitzgerald313]

NOW HE CAN BRING HIS STAR TREK WARBIRD FROM UCONN

[@BrooksOrlando]

Clingan, Scoot, Sharpe, and Simons are all under 25. That’s a heck of a young core

[@ronbaur1]

And Deny too

[@rosecityusa6120]

As a die-hard Blazers fan... I'm super stoked! Go #TrailBlazers ❤️🖤🩶

[@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127]

lets go ptown

[@BC-go5yl]

Welcome to #RipCity

[@rob3988]

Bust 🎉

[@divynenick3108]

Troll much

[@hernantuquero5969]

How come the blazers didn’t pick zack edey?

[@jarrettchristensen_music]

Edey is a questionable defender

[@ccthree329]

Shoulda taken Edey, look at the head to head matchup in the ncaa title game. Edey clearly better in every category and could start tommarow. By feb 2025 will be obvious the Blazers used the 7th pick to draft a backup center basically.

[@Tonebaited123]

Nah, you can’t go off a single game 😂

[@Daniel_Capital]

@@Tonebaited123 genius, can you go off their careers? Edey being 2 time player of the year? Jesus

[@Tonebaited123]

@@Daniel_Capital guess we’ll find out. I’ll come back to this comment in a few years and we’ll see.

[@chriskelly3940]

Bad take… edey was literally their only offensive power in that game. Dropped 30 something because they shoveled the ball to him every time and they still lost. Clingan is a better interior defender than edey and and has sooo much more upside

[@ccthree329]

@@chriskelly3940 By January reality will sink in with Clingan, I hope he becomes the next Joker but would settle for Nurkic but prepared for a fun size Mark Eaton or a bigger Cody Zeller, he's also not much of a foul shooter.

[@SpaceTraveIer]

This guy should have been a piston

[@trifeali9178]

now trade Jerami Grant for Brandon Ingram both fit into the other teams core way better then there current teams

[@kobiiboksireficul]

Is Ayton a bench player?

[@GeorgeConner69420]

No? Clingan is. Why are so many thinking he is going to come in and start lol. He is just going to be depth and run with the 2s

[@kobiiboksireficul]

@GeorgeConner69420 then what was the point of taking him at 7? Why pick him in the lottery if he's not ganna start ? I don't get it , other teams would have him starting, it don't make sense imo

[@kobiiboksireficul]

@GeorgeConner69420 why , why would they pick him at 7 then? Other team's would of had him as a starter, he was a projected number 1 pick , I feel bad for they guy .

[@streettoughfighting]

Yeah Cupcayton should get traded if anyone would take him.

[@hazeofthegreensmoke505]

DA played 4 in college...

[@user-gh3cz6eu7e]

We dont call them the "trailblazers" its just "Blazers"

[@user-xh2qf8dr4n]

Terrible pick, I'm sorry, but Ayton was incredible that second half of the year. I think a big guard or a forward would have been much better for portland.

[@jarrettchristensen_music]

They got avdija who still has some upside

[@user-xh2qf8dr4n]

@@jarrettchristensen_music i guess so, but getting rid of Brogdon and two firsts? Insane.

[@jarrettchristensen_music]

@@user-xh2qf8dr4n yeah it was a bad trade

[@jarrettchristensen_music]

@@user-xh2qf8dr4n the value was definitely bad

[@crazyirish209]

learn from boston.NOBODY can be a liability

[@jasonpdsi]

When was the last time the Blazers drafted a center in the top ten whose legs DIDN'T explode at some point? Don't worry, I'll wait.

[@gamechanger114]

2024

[@Habeev07]

Fk off troll. Oden was great. He had 13pts, 20reb, 4blks the game before his injury at only 21 years old. He was going to be the best center in the league. 30 out of 30 GMs polled back then were taking Oden. look it up.

[@sunriseeternity300]

Too slow for the NBA.

[@JarJartwinks427]

If Marc Gasol and Nikola Jokic can be stars in the NBA then I think this kid has the athleticism to be at least a good starter

[@sunriseeternity300]

@@JarJartwinks427 both of those guys can shoot. Defenses have no reason to go out and defend Clingan. All those easy baskets clingan gets around the hoop. Those won't be there in NBA, unless the other team has a smaller guy on him, and if that's the case, clingan won't be able to defend the smaller guy at the other end. Slow footed defenders in the nba generally find themselves in foul trouble, playing in limited minutes. I don't view him as a starter on a good team while in the league. I hope that I'm wrong.

[@Mbrob]

@@sunriseeternity300he’s 20 yrs old and raw asf he can easily develop a jumper.

[@chriskelly3940]

@@sunriseeternity300his jumper looks good and totally can be developed. Slow feet + incredible passing is not an issue

[@JarJartwinks427]

@@sunriseeternity300 literally has nothing to do with him being too slow and Gasol couldn’t shoot a lick when he first entered the league so what’s your point?

[@streettoughfighting]

Blazers unsurprisingly added a little white to their roster, they just didn’t seem like the Portland vibe without at least one on the floor. 🤣

[@Sportdue55]

What 😂

[@chrislewis6488]

Stick the race baiting b.s. up your hinny,Donovan is a winner period

[@gregbors8364]

Blazers selected the best player available at 7 and got a steal. Leave your ray sism out of this

[@lenzlea2400]

get a life trent

[@streettoughfighting]

Ain’t nothing racist about stating a fact, blazers have had white big men historically….Nurk, Prizbilla, Sabonas, Walton. Born n raised, Portland is a very white city look it up. 🤣

[@IceCreamCornDawg]

Whoever gave this pick a grade A needs to fired, Cronin needs to be fired, Jody should be forced to sell the team. This combined with the Wizards trade should be enough to put someone in jail

[@Iggy1977]

Of course when the Blazers are in a rebuild they get the worst draft in years to choose from.

[@TripleDeluxeDrums]

trail blazers. one of the worst organizations in the nba.

[@guylocation9823]

What a weak draft !