One night after being blown out in their own building against the worst team in the NBA, The Portland Trail Blazers upset the Los Angeles Lakers Wednesday evening in a rowdy 107-105 scrap-fest at the Moda Center.
Despite being forced to explore the deepest, darkest depths of their roster, the Blazers delivered a committed and energized performance, giving Los Angeles all they could handle and more, overcoming 30 points from LeBron James.
The Blazers remain in the strange limbo between making franchise-altering roster changes and waiting for those new faces to actually join the team, or for that matter, knowing who exactly those faces will ultimately belong to.