Considering the Portland Trail Blazers will finish off their 2018-19 regular season exactly one month from now, it seems like the right time to kick off our the Western Conference Playoff Update posts, especially with an important three-game road trip starting Tuesday in Los Angeles versus the Clippers.
Though the standings might change by time you read this, the Trail Blazers currently find themselves in a tie with the Thunder for fourth in the Western Conference standings (the Thunder own the tiebreaker, but for our purposes, we go by win percentage at this point) with 16 games to play.