On April 23, 2019, the three-seed Portland Trail Blazers hosted the six-seed Oklahoma City Thunder inGame 5 of their Western Conference first round playoff series. After winning the first two games of the series in Portland and Game 4 in Oklahoma City, the Trail Blazers returned home with a chance to close out the series a year after being unceremoniously swept out of the first round of the 2018 Playoffs.
The following is an oral history of the fourth quarter of that game, as told by six Trail Blazers, which would culminate with Damian Lillard hitting the second playoff-series ending three-pointer of his career and the Portland winning 118-115 to advance to the second round.