The Portland Trail Blazers are in the middle of a tanking season, and tonight they were in full tank mode. Almost every player that a casual NBA fan might know on their team was either injured or traded a couple of weeks back.
This game went the way it should for a contending team on their home court against a tanking team. The Utah Jazz took an early lead and never looked back. Donovan Mitchell was cooking early, Rudy Gobert and Hassan Whiteside were throwing down dunks, and the lead blossomed to 30 in the first half.