The Portland Trail Blazers are riding high.
Winners of nine of their last 10, Portland is one of the league’s hottest teams as take on the new-look Sacramento Kings and play the last game of a seven-game homestand.
Most recently winning 112-89 against a decent Indiana Pacers team, the Blazers should be getting every opponent’s best shot as not one, not two, but three Blazers were in the running for weekly or monthly honors. They have the NBA’s second-best net rating over the last 10 games (second only to the Oklahoma City Thunder), and aren’t relying on just a single player, but have found ways to win even when stalwarts Deni Avdija and Shaedon Sharpe have had short or extended slumps.