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Blazers Fall to Nuggets in Nail-Biter (the other kind of nails)

The Portland Trail Blazers walked into Ball Arena to play the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night hoping just hoping to put in a good showing. They, uh...didn’t. In an outing best described as, “1st-Level D&D Characters Get Teleported to the Abyss”, Portland fell to Nikola Jokic and the Nuggets 140-108.

If you missed the action, you can find our quarter-by-quarter recap (or as much as we could do without losing our sense of humor) here. Once you’ve got that down...

...well, let’s be honest. There’s not much analysis to this game. The Blazers played extremely well when their “starters”—who did not include Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, Norman Powell, or Anfernee Simons—had fresh legs and hope.