LAS VEGAS -- The Portland Trail Blazers’ 2018 Summer League team entered their first game in Las Vegas hoping to return to the championship game for the second time in as many summer leagues.
One game in, they look like they’ve got a shot at it.
Led by 20 points from Wade Baldwin IV, the Trail Blazers defeated the Utah Jazz, a team that had already played three summer league games going into Saturday’s contest, 93-78 in front of a sold-out crowd at COX Pavilion on the campus of UNLV.
“I just liked our pace, just the demeanor all of us played with,” said Baldwin IV.