The two-seed Portland Trail Blazers put a cap on their perfect 2018 Las Vegas Summer League by defeating the one-seed Los Angeles Lakers 91-73 in the Tournament Championship Tuesday night at Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV.
“We have a lot of first-rounders, a lot of guys with experience,” said Trail Blazers point guard Wade Baldwin IV. “Coming in the goal was to win a championship and we went undefeated and we did that as a team.”
With the win, the Trail Blazers finish their run in Las Vegas with a 7-0 record.
Tuesday night’s game was a rematch of the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League Tournament Finals, which the Lakers won handily, and the Trail Blazers wasted no time exacting their revenge by jumping out to an early double-digit lead.