Any questions fans had about the San Antonio Spurs were answered in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals. Despite struggling to take down the Dallas Mavericks in seven games, the team came out and showed why it’s the defending conference champions against the Portland Trail Blazers.
It took seven games, but the San Antonio Spurs made it past the Dallas Mavericks in Round 1 of the 2014 NBA playoffs, and now they have a date with the Portland Trail Blazers – the team who knocked off the Houston Rockets in six games.
The San Antonio Spurs and Portland Trail Blazers have survived Round 1, and now the two will face off in the Western Conference Semifinals. The two franchises have faced off in the postseason three times (San Antonio leads the series 2-1) with the 1999 Western Conference Finals being the most recent.
The Portland Trail Blazers won three of the first four games in this series, but Game 5 was all about the Houston Rockets. Clutch City defeated Rip City 108-98, in what was the first contest of the series that was decided by double digits.
The Houston Rockets haven’t made it easy on the Portland Trail Blazers, but you wouldn’t know it by the series total through four games. At this point, Portland has a 3-1 series lead, but two of those wins have come in overtime.
The Houston Rockets needed a win in Game 3, and they got it on the road against the Portland Trail Blazers. Now it’s time for one team to show it wants it more before heading back to Clutch City for Game 5.
The Portland Trail Blazers have shocked the Houston Rockets early in Round 1. Portland leads 2-0, but the Rockets are now the ones playing as underdogs in a pivotal Game 3.
If you’re looking for an entertaining NBA playoff series, look no further than the Western Conference quarterfinals matchup between the fourth-seeded Houston Rockets and the fifth-seeded Portland Trail Blazers.
The Portland Trail Blazers won their 50th game of the NBA season on April 6 against the New Orleans Pelicans, earning them a playoff berth for the first time since 2011.
The Portland Trail Blazers have gone through multiple phases throughout the 2013-14 NBA season. They started hot, got ice cold and have now won four straight in their chase toward home-court advantage.
No team in the NBA needs a win as badly as the Portland Trail Blazers. Having lost eight of itheir last 11 games, the Blazers enter this matchup with the Atlanta Hawks as the fifth seed out West.
The Portland Trail Blazers are in the midst of their worst struggle of the season, but they have two things in their favor at this juncture: They’re coming off of a near-comeback win against the Miami Heat and they have the Orlando Magic up next—a franchise that wants nothing more than to tank and earn a top pick in the 2014 NBA draft.
The Portland Trail Blazers and Miami Heat have been two of the best teams in the NBA throughout the 2013-14 season, but entering Monday’s faceoff, the two are struggling mightily with the playoffs around the corner.
The Milwaukee Bucks have been the worst team in the NBA throughout the entirety of the 2013-14 season, and life isn’t getting any easier with a trip to see the Portland Trail Blazers on the horizon.
The Portland Trail Blazers are struggling, but a matchup against the 26-38 New Orleans Pelicans offers them their most favorable matchup of a brutal five-game road trip.
The Portland Trail Blazers are set to visit the San Antonio Spurs Wednesday on ESPN, and while it’s the latter who is both historically and currently the better team, it’s the former who has had the most success against the other this year.
