The Portland Trail Blazers are staying right here at home as they host the reportedly-about-to-be-sold Boston Celtics at the Moda Center.
Late March and April in the NBA can whip up quite a bit of funny business from teams as the regular season wraps up. Tonight will be no exception. Three of the Celtics’ best players - Jayson Tatum, Jaylen Brown, and Kristaps Porzingis - are all on the injury report, and it will be a surprise if any of them play. And while the Celtics like Portland have won four in a row, they are very firmly locked into their playoff standing sitting five games behind the Eastern Conference-leading Cleveland Cavaliers and seven games ahead of the third-place New York Knicks.