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After defeating the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers in the first game of their extended stay in southern California, the Trail Blazers will try to pull off a repeat performance versus the Clippers in the second leg Wednesday night at Staples Center. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. SERIES HISTORY PORTLAND HOME: Trail Blazers lead, 88-25 LA HOME: Trail Blazers lead, 59-56 LAST PORTLAND WIN: 125-104, 3/12/19 (Portland) LAST LA WIN: 122-117, 8/8/20 (Portland) CURRENT WIN STREAK: Three (LA) SERIES NOTES • Portland s Dec. 30 meeting with the Clippers is the first of three games between the two teams this season. The second two matchups will be during the Second Half of the season. ....
The last time the Trail Blazers and Lakers met in Los Angeles, the city and the league were still in mourning after a helicopter crash took the lives of Kobe Bryant, his daughter Gianna and seven others. Thousands congregated in and around Staples Centers to pay their respects to one of the city’s most beloved icons. When the game was finally played in front of a packed house, the Trail Blazers managed to come away with with a 127-119 victory, thanks in large part to a 48-point performance from Damian Lillard. Roughly 11 month later, things look markedly different. The memorials that filled LA Live, the area adjacent to Staples Center, and the thousands of mourners, are gone. In fact, for the most part, the streets of one of world’s capitals are mostly empty as the city struggles to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. And when they Trail Blazers and Lakers meet Monday night in a rematch of the first round of the 2020 Western Conference playoffs, they’ll do so in front of a spar ....
Rockets season opener postponed by COVID-19 issues Jonathan Feigen FacebookTwitterEmail 12 1of12People stand in front of Toyota Center after it was announced that the Rockets opening night game against the Oklahoma City Thunder was being postponed, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of12People stand in front of Toyota Center after it was announced that the Rockets opening night game against the Oklahoma City Thunder was being postponed, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 3of12 4of12The entrance is blocked and barriers separate what would have been the lines into Toyota Center after it was announced that the Rockets opening night game against the Oklahoma City Thunder was being postponed, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less ....