NBA power rankings: Portland Trail Blazers’ hot late-season play keeps them near top 10
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
Trail Blazers guard CJ McCollum (#3) mixes it up with the Lakers’ bench as the Portland Trail Blazers face the Los Angeles Lakers with limited fans in attendance at Moda Center on Friday, May 7, 2021. Sean Meagher/The Oregonian
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After 69 games and five months of a truncated NBA season, the Portland Trail Blazers are finally playing their best basketball.
And heading into the final week, the Blazers remain at or near the top 10 in the latest batch of NBA power rankings.
The Blazers (40-29), who have won eight of their last nine games to surge into sixth place in the Western Conference, opened the week with a 140-129 victory over the Houston Rockets and control their own destiny in the race to avoid the postseason play-in tournament.
MLB-to-Portland hopes get boost as Oakland Athletics approved to explore relocation options
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
FILE - The Los Angeles Angels and Oakland Athletics stand for the national anthem at the Oakland Coliseum prior to an opening day baseball game in Oakland, Calif., in this Thursday, March 29, 2018, file photo. Major League Baseball instructed the Athletics to explore relocation options as the team tries to secure a new ballpark it hopes will keep the club in Oakland in the long term. MLB released a statement Tuesday, May 11, 2021, expressing its longtime concern that the current Coliseum site is “not a viable option for the future vision of baseball.” (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)AP
By halftime at Gisborne on Sunday,
Massey led 3-2, which completed the scoring. The students’ goals came through Cole Freeman, Zac Farmer and Michael Hilson. Coach Donald Piper said returning from Gisborne with three points was impressive. “We didn’t win it statistically in terms of chances created but we scored the goals.”. Five Massey players are in the leading group of the Golden Boot contenders: Rhys Galyer, Farmer, George Andrew and Cole and Joe Freeman. At Havelock North,
Marist coach Juliano Schmeling said “individual mistakes” cost his side the game as Marist struggled to cope with Wanderers’ long ball game in a 3-1 loss.