It was a helluva holiday-slash-birthday weekend for Trail Blazers’ head coach Terry Stotts.
One night after beating the Nets in a old-school offensive shootout (Best of the Season, Part III), Portland found itself in the nation’s capital to take on the Washington Wizards.
It was the second game of a back-to-back and the fourth game of a five-game, Thanksgiving-week, Eastern road swing.
And it just happened to be Stotts’ 60th birthday.
Well, happy birthday to you, Coach Stotts.
Blazers-Wizards
It didn’t start off all that well for Portland.