The Portland Trail Blazers finally ran into a team as beat up as they are on Friday night in the form of the Washington Wizards. Lacking Bradley Beal and any other players whose names you would recognize, the Wizards put up a plucky fight. It wasn’t nearly good enough against Portland’s talented, if under-performing, starting lineup. Portland won the game 122-103 shooting 51.1% from the field.
The game started out on a weird note, as Wizards guard Isaiah Thomas got ejected 90 seconds after tip-off for shoving a referee on a sideline trap play.