LOS ANGELES -- The main and most vexing storyline through the first week of the 2020-21 NBA regular season has been the inordinate number of blowout losses, both among the presumed lottery teams as well as the title contenders.
“It’s really unusual,” said Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts. “I don’t have an answer for it but I think everybody sees that it’s a real thing. Seems like every night there’s one or two blowouts.”
On Wednesday night in Los Angeles, it was the Trail Blazers’ turn to suffer that fate.
After starting an extended stay in L.