Heading in to the Trail Blazers game against the Toronto Raptors:
This was Portland’s final east coast trip of the year. And it was their third game in four days.
No C.J. Miles for the Raptors. (Soreness in his right knee.)
Stotts won his fifth NBA Western Conference Coach of the Month award.
Damian Lillard needed 12 points to reach 10,000 points for his career.
Here are some thoughts and various odds-and-ends about Friday’s game.
SPOILER ALERT: I gave up near the end because dang Toronto is good.