Despite being one of the most injured teams in the league, the Portland Trail Blazers have overcome their early-season adversity. They now sit at 16-20 after surprisingly winning four of their last five games, the most recent of which was a 115-110 win over the San Antonio Spurs.
This may have been a different outcome had Victor Wembanyama (knee) been healthy, but this is an impressive road win for a Blazers team that still entered the contest as underdogs. The X-Factor for Portland was second-year center Donovan Clingan, who finished with a career-high 24 points to go along with 12 rebounds and four assists in 34 minutes.