When mid-March rolls around each NBA season, the old cliché of 'scoreboard watching' begins to dominate the questions asked of coaches and players after practices and in the locker room following games as the games dwindle and playoff races intensify. Sunday night, cliché or not, the Portland Trail Blazers were scoreboard watching as the eighth-place Denver Nuggets fell to the New Orleans Pelicans while the Blazers were in the process of a blowout win over the Los Angeles Lakers.
"I didn’t know [Denver lost] until I came out the game," Portland guard Damian Lillard admitted to reporters following his team's 97-81 win over LA.