The six-seed Trail Blazers stole away home court versus the three-seed Nuggets by winning one of the first two games of the series in Denver. Now they’ll have to protect home court, and they’ll be getting some help, with the capacity at Moda Center raised to roughly 8,000, more than tripling the previous capacity put in place due to COVID-19 restrictions.
“Just knowing that we’re going to have six, seven thousand more people in the building, you know it’s going to be energy,” said Damian Lillard. “Especially, I think, Denver had that same amount of people and it felt like pretty much a normal game.