Across the last few weeks, the Portland Trail Blazers seemed destined to face the Utah Jazz in the first round of the playoffs. Both teams were sitting in the four and five seeds, respectively. However, the Blazers had a chance to potentially overtake the three seed from the Houston Rockets with a win on Wednesday night against the Sacramento Kings.
The organization decided to rest Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, so a victory did not seem likely. It seemed even less likely when the Blazers were trailing by a whopping 28 points, but somehow the team pulled off the victory.