PORTLAND -- Monday afternoon’a game should give us a good indication of how the Trail Blazers fill out their starting lineup as they wait for players to return from injury. We also got a sense of how long at least one of those absences will last.
With CJ McCollum sidelined with a left foot sprain, Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts said pre-game that he had decided to start Rodney Hood alongside Damian Lillard, Derrick Jones Jr, Robert Covington and Enes Kanter in Monday’s contest versus the Spurs at the Moda Center.
Stotts said he considered starting Anfernee Simons and Gary Trent Jr.