On this edition of The Brief Case Podcast, Portland Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl, on location with the team in Las Vegas, discusses...

• The Trail Blazers splitting their first two games at the 2024 NBA2K Las Vegas Summer League

• Differences between Portland's first and second games in Las Vegas

• Donovan Clingan's performance at the end of the Trail Blazers' victory versus the 76ers Monday night

• Clingan's comments after Monday's win at Thomas & Mack Arena

• Duop Reath playing just two minutes in Team Australia's loss to Team USA in a friendly Monday

• And the show ends with an interview with Trail Blazers forward Kris Murray about his offseason, what he's looking to improve at his second Summer League, how one gets better defensively, developing chemistry in a short amount of time and his golf game

On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, Trail Blazers beat reporter/insider Casey Holdahl, on location with the team in Las Vegas, discusses...

• Portland's four-game schedule at the Las Vegas Summer League, which begins Saturday versus the Spurs

• The Trail Blazers scrimmaging versus the Chinese National Team Friday at UNLV

• Portland signing Bryce McGowens to a two-way contract on Thursday

• Which group the Trail Blazers are in for the 2024 NBA Emirates Cup (aka the In-Season Tournament)

• Donovan Clingan's comments about center in the NBA and his goals going into his first game at Summer League versus a former teammate

On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers' preparations for the Las Vegas Summer League

• What Kris Murray, Rayan Rupert and Donovan Clingan are working on this offseason

• Is Rayan Portland's most important player at Summer League?

• Deandre Ayton and the Bahamas falling just short in their quest to make the Olympics and what it says about DA's dedication to the game and his country

• The vexing decision to leave Matisse Thybulle off the Australian National Team

• We still got Duop Reath though!

• Deni Avdija's discusses his thoughts on the trade, how he would describe the way he plays, his career thus far, his role on the team and what he learned in his last few seasons with the Wizards

On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Draft Night trade for Deni Avdija finally going official

• Thoughts on how Avdija's fit and place on the Trail Blazers going forward

• The second round pick trade also being finalized

• Deandre Ayton and the Bahamas National Team trying to qualify for the Olympics in basketball for the first time

• The Trail Blazers' 2024 Summer League roster that includes Kris Murray, Rayan Rupert and Donovan Clingan

• Shaedon Sharpe, Scoot Henderson and Toumani Camara NOT being on the Summer League roster but still attending the first day of practice

• Rookie center Donovan Clingan's comments about his first practice as a Trail Blazer

On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers selecting UCONN center Donovan Clingan with the seventh overall pick of the 2024 NBA Draft

• The Trail Blazers' long-running interest in Clingan and whether they were prepared to trade up

• What Clingan brings to Portland's roster

• Clingan's workout with the Trail Blazers in Tualatin

• Talent being more important than position in this stage of Portland's rebuild

• Trading the 14th, 34th and 40th picks for... something

• A lack of roster spots

• The next few weeks which will include a press conference, summer league training camp and then at least five games in Las Vegas

• Trail Blazers general manager Joe Cronin's comments after the first round

On this extended, 2024 NBA Draft Edition of The Brief Case, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The players and trades the Trail Blazers have executed during the last five drafts and how that might instruct what direction they'll go at this year's event

• The best way to know if the Trail Blazers are interested in drafting a player

• What skills the team might look for at the draft should they look to prioritize fit over "best player available"

• The mixed bag that is the recent history of the seventh and 14th picks

• A recap of the Trail Blazers 2024 pre-draft workout schedule

• Scouting reports on the players who worked out in Portland who are expected to be taken in the first round

On this edition of The Brief Case podcast, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider discusses...

• The Trail Blazers wrapping up their pre-draft workouts a few days before the 2024 Draft

• What Marquette F/C Oso Ighodaro and F Nae’Qwan Tomlin had to say about their workouts with the Trail Blazers

• A brief review of the players who came to Portland for workouts who are expected to be selected in the first round

• The snooze that was the NBA Finals

• The Bulls sending Alex Caruso to Oklahoma City for Josh Giddey in the first big trade of the offseason

On this edition of The Brief Case, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers' predraft workouts less than two weeks away from the 2024 Draft

• Public vs. Private and Group vs. Solo workouts

• A quiet rumor mill so far

And we hear from Tennessee guard/forward Dalton Knecht, Duke guard Jared McCain, Duke forward/center Kyle Filipowski and Colorado forward Tristan Da Silva about their workouts with the Trail Blazers at the team's practice facility in Tualatin.