Following the weeklong NBA All-Star Break, the Portland Trail Blazers (23-33) visit the Orlando Magic (21-37) Thursday evening to begin a three-game Eastern Conference road trip that colncludes with stops in Toronto and Detroit. The Magic took the first meeting between the two sides, 115-109, in Portland on January 13.
Damian Lillard enters the second half of the NBA season leading the Blazers with 25.7 points per game, the tenth-best average in the NBA. Behind him, CJ McCollum holds an average of 23.4 points per game on 48.4% shooting from the field and a 41.1% mark from behing the three-point line.