The Portland Trail Blazers come from behind to defeat the Atlanta Hawks 106-102 tonight in front of the home crowd in the Rose City. Both teams had injury lists longer than the Columbia River, but the game must go on. Each team still had their starting shooting guards, Dejounte Murray for the Hawks and Anfernee Simons for the Blazers.
Murray got the party started early and often for Atlanta, who jumped out to an early double digit lead thanks to the scoring output and efficiency from Murray. Side note, Murray has put together 5, 40 point games in his career… 3 of them have come against the Blazers.