The Portland Trail Blazers went into Monday night’s game in high spirits. They had a dominant win over the Rockets in their last matchup and a superstar just 21 points away from the franchise scoring record. The last thing they expected was to be deadlocked in an intense matchup with the 13th-seeded Oklahoma City Thunder that ended in a 123-121 heartbreak.
The Blazers were lead by the new big man on campus Damian Lillard who finished with 28, and Jerami Grant who chipped in 26 of his own.
The Thunder did it by committee with only one player scoring more than 14 points.