MEMPHIS – The Grizzlies thwarted CJ McCollum’s extraordinary efforts to lift the shorthanded Blazers to another road win with a hot hand from beyond the arc to outlast the Blazers, 108-103, in Memphis in front of 16,050 fans Wednesday night.
Portland dropped its first road game since Feb. 5 in Detroit, snapping a seven-game run that tied for the third-longest road winning streak in team history. The only two longer road winning streaks occurred during the 1990-91 season, when the Trail Blazers won a team-record nine straight games from March 20-April 10, 1991, and eight in a row from Nov.