The Portland Trail Blazers take their slim summer league playoff hopes into a Friday night matchup with the Charlotte Hornets in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Each 2-1 team must win by a significant margin to have a chance at squeezing into the top four in the summer league standings.
Friday begins with two 4-0 teams (Memphis and the LA Clippers) and three 3-0 teams, all of which have a greater average point differential than the Blazers (0.7).
So, Portland needs two of the three 3-0 teams to lose, and then they must defeat the Hornets by enough points to eclipse the point differential of every other team at 3-1.