It's been a great start to the post All-Star break portion of the regular season for the Portland Trail Blazers.
After questions about whether they could secure wins against good teams on the road, the Trail Blazers defeated the Nets, 76ers and Celtics before losing their first game of a brutal two-week trip by two points to the Raptors, a team with the second best record in the NBA. Jusuf Nurkiu0107 is playing arguably the best basketball of his career, the Trail Blazers are 4-0 with Enes Kanter, acquired as a free agent after he was bought out by the Knicks, in the lineup and Rodney Hood, acquired via trade from the Cavaliers prior to the deadline, was the difference in Portland besting the Hornets in the sixth game of a seven-game road trip Sunday afternoon in Charlotte.