Whether or not the Philadelphia 76ers trade second-year center Jahlil Okafor to the New Orleans Pelicans, as the teams were discussing Monday according to a report from ESPN.com's Marc Stein and Marc J. Spears, the No. 3 overall pick of the 2015 NBA draft has a good chance of finding a new home soon after being squeezed out of Philadelphia's center rotation by fellow Cheap NFL Jerseys USA lottery picks Joel Embiid and Nerlens Noel.

As teams contemplate trading for Okafor, the NBA Jerseys For Sale first question they must answer is if he can become a useful NBA player, since that hasn't yet been the case. Okafor has rated far below replacement level by ESPN's real plus-minus (RPM). Looking at the multiyear, predictive version of RPM (the version on ESPN.com includes only 2016-17 performance), Okafor's minus-4.8 predictive RPM is the league's third-worst mark.

At the same time, RPM tends to be more variable than box Nike NFL Jerseys From China score prediction. So what are the chances of a player who rates so poorly early in his career improving to the point where he can help a team?

Things were starting to look promising for Cheap Jerseys Wholesale the Wolves. After an 0-4 start to 2017, they went 8-3 and, as noted in this section each of the past couple weeks, and even found a way to pull out a couple close ones.

The momentum that had been bubbling around Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping Karl-Anthony Towns -- who remains on course to become the first player to post a 23 PPG and 11 RPG season at age 21 or younger since Shaquille O'Neal did it twice -- took a major hit Saturday when Minnesota announced that rising star Zach LaVine will require season-ending surgery on his left knee to repair a torn ACL. That news came shortly after we learned, via ESPN's Basketball Power Index, that the Wolves entered the weekend facing the league's second-toughest schedule for the rest of the season.