After four months of “regular” NBA basketball, two months of inactivity due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a month of solo workouts, a month of training camp and three weeks of “seeding” games, the Trail Blazers will find out Thursday if their 2019-20 campaign goes on.
And thanks in large part to Damian Lillard’s heroics in the last two games, the Trail Blazers are the odds-on favorite to not only make the Western Conference Play-In, but to finish as the eight-seed, which requires winning just once in two attempts to advance to the playoffs (the nine-seed has to win two games to advance).