With the injury bug stinging more like a tarantula hawk, the Portland Trail Blazers limp into Los Angeles to face the Lakers.
About those the injuries: Anfernee Simons is still out, Robert Williams III won’t be back this season, Scoot Henderson will take another two-to-three weeks to even be reevaluated, and news came yesterday that Malcolm Brogdon was ruled out of today’s contest. Any analysis of Blazers games for the next little while needs to have a bold, large-font asterisk of “team projected to be bad in the first place is missing its best player and multiple key rotation pieces.