Trail Blazers Trade Pack to Nuggets

Two days after he signed a new contract, guard Robert Pack was traded Friday by the Portland Trail Blazers to the Denver Nuggets for a second-round draft choice in 1993.

Pack, a rookie free agent last season out of USC, averaged 4.6 points, 1.9 assists and 12.4 minutes in 72 regular-season games. His value diminished in the off-season when Portland signed free-agent point guard Rod Strickland.

Pack signed with Portland on Wednesday after holding out of training camp because he had not been offered any guaranteed money. Terms were not disclosed.

Portland gets the lowest of Denver’s three second-round picks, perhaps the Trail Blazers’ own, obtained by Denver in a three-team deal that sent Drazen Petrovic to the New Jersey Nets and Walter Davis to Portland in 1990.