LAS VEGAS -- After making it through the first two games of their Las Vegas Summer League schedule relatively unscathed, the Portland Trail Blazers suffered two injuries during Tuesday afternoon’s loss to the San Antonio Spurs at COX Pavilion on the campus of UNLV. How the Trail Blazers perform once tournament play starts Wednesday will likely depend on the severity of those injuries.
First, it was guard Pat Connaughton, who suffered a left hamstring strain midway through the second quarter. The second-year guard out of Notre Dame, who has started in all three of Portland’s 2017 summer league games, came up lame after finding Jake Layman streaking to the rim at roughly the six minute mark of the second quarter.