The Portland Trail Blazers held practice Thursday afternoon in San Francisco prior to their final game of preseason versus the Golden State Warriors (tipoff scheduled for Thursday at 7 p.m. on ROOT Sports and Rip City Radio 620 AM). Some notes from practice...
• Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups didn’t say too much to his team in the immediate aftermath of their blowout loss, albeit in preseason, to the Suns Wednesday afternoon in Phoenix. There’s little room for ambiguity when you lose by 45 points, so he didn’t figure there was much reason stick his finger in a fresh wound.