After starting out their 2021 summer league with consecutive victories, the Portland Trail Blazers were thumped 97-64 by the Indiana Pacers Thursday afternoon at Thomas & Mack Center on the campus of UNLV.
“I told the guys after the game, I said ‘Welcome to the NBA,’” said summer league head coach/regular season assistant coach Roy Rogers. “This is what happens. You start feeling too good about yourselves and you come in and play a team that’s desperate for a win. They’re 0-2 and they jumped out on us and give the credit to Indiana, they were more physical on both ends of the court.