How will the Portland Trail Blazers follow up their second 60-plus-point defeat of the season? The smart money is on another loss, just maybe not quite as brutal. The Blazers have crossed the Rubicon to where it’s really hard to imagine they’ll do anything that might cost them a draft position. Still, players sometimes have a way of ruining the best laid plans of GMs and men. Just don’t count on it.
The Orlando Magic are in 5th place in the East and are in contact with the teams as low as 8th place and as high as 2nd place.