On this pre NBA Trade Deadline edition of the Brief Case, Casey Holdahl discusses...
• Chauncey Billups' comments on his conversations with players about trade rumors
• Portland going 2-1 on a three-game trip and their upcoming five-game homestand leading into the All-Star break
• Damian Lillard winning a second-consecutive Western Conference Player of the Week award and the case to name Lillard as an All-Star starter in place of Stephen Curry
• Jusuf Nurkic being out until at least the All-Star break and Greg Brown III being recalled from the G-League
• What the folks at ESPN, Yahoo Sports and The Athletic have said about the Trail Blazers and their prospects of making a trade before the NBA Trade Deadline, which expires Thursday at noon.