The Portland Trail Blazers take on the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City in the second game of a very brief two-game road trip. The Blazers enter this game hoping to not come up empty on the road following a loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Blazers have been in a free fall recently, as losers of eight of their last ten contests. They hope to turn around their luck against a Jazz team that has came back down to Earth following a scorching 10-3 start.
The Jazz come into this contest as winners of two straight, but that win streak comes right off the tail end of a five-game skid.