A four-game road trip through the Eastern United States continues Wednesday night as the Portland Trail Blazers (18-25) visit the Charlotte Hornets (20-21). Wednesday's meeting is the first of two between the two sides this month as the Hornets visit Portland on January 31.
The Blazers stop in Charlotte comes on the heels of back-to-back losses to Eastern Conference opponents. Portland fell at home on Friday night to the Orlando Magic, 115-109, before a 120-101 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day defeat to the Wizards in Washington. Both halves of Portland's starting backcourt of Damian Lillard (26.2 points per game) and CJ McCollum (23.