It’s been a rough month for the Portland Trail Blazers. Half the players and a majority of the coaching staff have found themselves in health and safety protocols as the Omicron variant runs wild through the NBA, CJ McCollum hasn’t played since his right lung partially collapsed in a loss to the Celtics, Damian Lillard has been in and out of the lineup with a nagging abdominal injury, all of which has resulted in Portland winning just three times in their last 14 tries, a stretch that includes losing streaks of seven and four games.
But one of the constants in the few instances in which the Trail Blazers have come away with wins in the last month has been time timely plays by Nassir Little.