The Portland Trail Blazers defeated Haifa Maccabi 104-68 on Thursday evening, bringing their Preseason, 2019 record to 1-1. Several prominent Blazers, including starting guards Damian Lillard and CJ McCollum, sat out the game for “load management”. The Blazers cruised to an easy victory anyway.
Along with the usual asterisk, caveat, note - whatever you want to call it for preseason action- add another one to it. Call it caveat squared for tonight’s Trail Blazers v Maccabi Haifa match up- that is unless you were really wondering where Norris Cole, James Young, and Brandon Rush were playing basketball these days.