HOUSTON -- Often times in sports or in life, mistakes can end up producing something spectacular. That was the case for Nassir Little in Friday night’s victory versus the Rockets in Houston.
The Trail Blazers were leading by 14 with less than 30 seconds to play in the first half of Friday’s victory, Portland’s first on the road this season, when Damian Lillard passed the ball to a streaking Little with every expectation that the third-year forward would finish the fastbreak with a layup at worse or a dunk at best. But instead of going up and/or over Houston guard Kevin Porter Jr.