By Cody Sharrett — The Portland Trail Blazers (11-15) travel to the plains to open a five-game road trip against Northwest Division rival Oklahoma City Thunder (16-8) Wednesday evening. The midweek matchup is the first of four meetings between the two teams in 2015-16. Portland took last season’s series three games to one.
Wednesday’s clash will feature two of the NBA’s top-three scoring duos as the Portland tandem of Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum’s 44.4 points per game meets the Oklahoma City combination of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook’s 53.