PORTLAND, ORE. – You know what they say: Trail by the three, win by the three.
The Portland Trail Blazers did as much Thursday night when April came early to March and they defeated the Timberwolves 108-99 on a night a bit evocative of a springtime playoff game.
With a fourth-quarter comeback that included a flurry of three-pointers they couldn’t make to save themselves until then, the Blazers moved within a half game of the West’s third-place Wolves.
The Blazers missed their first 13 threes while the Wolves missed their first seven, but the Blazers made five of them when they needed to do so most, in the game’s final 10 minutes.