Edit: Nas Little left the game with a leg injury in the final seconds. We’ll have an update when the Blazers have details.
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It had to end sometime. Damian Lillard’s red-hot-and-rolling stretch came to a screeching halt in Denver, where the Nuggets leveled the Blazers. The game was somehow even uglier than the score looks.
Through the second half, all I could do was hum a song.
- Back to Life, Back to Reality. After a stretch primarily caused from one superstar’s hot shooting (we’ll get to that), the Blazers came back to Earth when they had to find other ways to win.