The Portland Trail Blazers needed the win itself Saturday night, when they defeated Minnesota 113-105 at the Moda Center. “We’ve had some bad stretch and we lost some games, trying to fight back and be better," center Jusuf Nurkic said. Going into Saturday’s game, the Blazers were 14-0 when leading at the end of the third quarter, 0-11 when trailing. Despite the end-of-third trend continuing, the way the Blazers took the win was a breakthrough. The Blazers, in fact, had been 0-11 in games in which they trailed in the final two minutes.

Source: Forbes December 09, 2018 23:15 UTC