After losing a heartbreaker to the Denver Nuggets, the Portland Trail Blazers (13-9) will look to bounce back against the San Antonio Spurs (10-12).
The Spurs themselves have just as much motivation to right their own ship. They’ve dropped six of their last eight games. What’s worse, in their last two games against the Houston Rockets and Minnesota Timberwolves, the club suffered two of their worst blowout losses during the Greg Popovich era back-to-back. They lost these games by a combined 70 points.
San Antonio currently sits 28th in the league in defensive rating (112.