The Portland Trail Blazers fought back from another double-digit second half deficit Saturday, but this time fell short of pulling off the complete comeback, falling on the road 118-113 in overtime to the Utah Jazz.
The story of the evening though is Jerami Grant, who exited the game early in the fourth quarter with an apparent concussion after taking an inadvertent elbow from Omer Yurtseven. It was a nasty hit and Grant had to be attended to on the floor before leaving the game on his own.
This contest had all the makings of the typical “trap” game, with Portland riding high off a pair of impressive road victories and Utah struggling while trying to make do without their two leading scorers in Lauri Markkanen and Jordan Clarkson.