PORTLAND -- This is why the Trail Blazers traded for Norman Powell.
The 6-3 guard, acquired from the Toronto Raptors at the 2021 trade deadline, tied his career-high for points in a playoff game with 29 to lead the Trail Blazers to a 115-95 victory versus the Nuggets in Game 4 in front of a sellout of 8,050 Saturday afternoon at the Moda Center.
“I thought the effort that we put in from start-to-finish was the exact effort that we needed,” said Powell. “I thought we were able to take the effort that we had from Game 3, the way we started the game.