Damian Lillard provided the spark early, Jusuf Nurkic did some heavy lifting along the way and CJ McCollum was the hero late Tuesday as the Portland Trail Blazers used an 18-4 run to seize an improbable 108-105 win on the road against the Washington Wizards.
McCollum had seven of his 26 points during the final 90 seconds, including the go ahead bucket as the Blazers recovered from a 17-point deficit in the final frame to pull off one of the more impressive comebacks in recent team memory.
Again facing an opponent recently hamstrung by injury, as Washington just learned today it would be facing at least the next two weeks without its star point guard in John Wall, it was Portland instead which looked out of sorts for much of the evening.