Game #63 Trail Blazers (38-23) @ Raptors (45-17); Friday Mar. 1st at 8pm EDT on SN1

[Maury]

Starting Lineups

Toronto



Kyle Lowry
Danny Green
Kawhi Leonard
Pascal Siakam
Serge Ibaka (?)

Portland



Damian Lillard
CJ McCollum
Maurice Harkless
Al-Forouq Aminu
Jusuf Nurkic

Both teams are coming off wins against Boston.

Friday is my birthday and all I want is a win.

Go Raps!

P.S. Joey, I hope this is high effort enough for you!

[Hotshot]

Blazers are on a roll having won 5 straight games with wins against Warriors, 76'ers and Celtics.

Last time they've met the Blazers won because their bench showed up and the Raps didnt (Zac Collins with 16 pts!? Gtfo!). Lets hope this new bench mob shows up this time.

[Zainab]

iTS GAME DAYYYYY
WOOOOOOOOOOO

[KeonClark]

Starting Lineups

Toronto



Kyle Lowry
Danny Green
Kawhi Leonard
Pascal Siakam
Serge Ibaka (?)

Portland



Damian Lillard
CJ McCollum
Maurice Harkless
Al-Forouq Aminu
Jusuf Nurkic

Both teams are coming off wins against Boston.

Friday is my birthday and all I want is a win.

Go Raps!

P.S. Joey, I hope this is high effort enough for you!

Happy 80th birthday Mr povich. As a young man, I was unaware of the sheer number of young moms in halter tops with half black babies that needed to find little Dahn'Tay's daddy. Thank you for your service. Salute.

[planetmars]

iTS GAME DAYYYYY
WOOOOOOOOOOO

It will be tomorrow

[G__Deane]

Thanks for getting this up Maury.

The Blazers are now 38-23 overall, but just 15-15 away from the Moda Center, 18-4 versus teams from the Eastern Conference and 4-0 to start their seven-game trip including beating the Celtics last night. Portland has won five in a row, their longest win streak of the season, and have secured a 2-0 sweep of the season series versus Celtics. Following that up with a W over the Raptors would really have them on a roll.

The Trail Blazers remain in fourth in the Western Conference standings and are five games behind the first-place Warriors but just a half game behind the third-place Thunder.

This will be a test; Lillard can be a terror but should be too much for a Raptor team firing on all cylinders. Kawhi better play

[planetmars]

This would be a good game to start Marc. Looked at the H2H stats between him and Nurkic.. and Gasol usually kicks his ass. Rebounding is basically a wash between the two as well.

[MixxAOR]

Good test for Raptors. Better be another blow out

[KeonClark]

Kyrie is doubling down on his "we the best" bullshit after last nights loss to Portland

Kyrie: “I don’t think anybody in the Eastern Conference can compete with us when we’re playing at the high level we know we’re supposed to be playing at.”

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) February 28, 2019

[Zainab]

Kyrie is doubling down on his "we the best" bullshit after last nights loss to Portland

Kyrie: “I don’t think anybody in the Eastern Conference can compete with us when we’re playing at the high level we know we’re supposed to be playing at.”

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) February 28, 2019

in other news, the earth is flat

[007]

Predicting 28 points for Kawhi, 20 for Siakam, 4 threes for Lowry and 10/8/10 for Gasol

[bertarapsfan]

Kyrie is doubling down on his "we the best" bullshit after last nights loss to Portland

Kyrie: “I don’t think anybody in the Eastern Conference can compete with us when we’re playing at the high level we know we’re supposed to be playing at.”

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) February 28, 2019

lol this dudes delusional. If they played a 7 game series vs the nets starting today i think they would struggle to win

[G__Deane]

Good test for Raptors. Better be another blow out

How can it be a good test but "better be another blow out" lol
Raptors really haven't blown out too many teams so let's not get ahead of ourselves. I'll settle for a convincing comfortable one

[G__Deane]

Kyrie is doubling down on his "we the best" bullshit after last nights loss to Portland

Kyrie: “I don’t think anybody in the Eastern Conference can compete with us when we’re playing at the high level we know we’re supposed to be playing at.”

— Adam Himmelsbach (@AdamHimmelsbach) February 28, 2019

Isn't that the same saying "there are any number of teams in the Easter Conference that can kick our azz when we're playing as disjointed as we are right now....."

[KeonClark]

Isn't that the same saying "there are any number of teams in the Easter Conference that can kick our azz when we're playing as disjointed as we are right now....."

Yes, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. But we know where kyrie thinks isaac newton can stick his laws of physics