It's the Monday night after the Oscars. The home team ranks in the bottom third of the league. It has no All-Stars. It has virtually no playoff hopes.
The crowd is roaring as if it were in a time machine, and Portland's Damian Lillard is glaring around like, what?
What? You've never seen Hollywood become Hoosiers? Is it hard to believe a losing NBA team is not tanking? You're so used to fighting off a single Lakers star, you don't know what to make of that passing thread that went from Isaiah Thomas to Lonzo Ball to Tyler Ennis to Travis Wear to a three-point swish?