Live from the Rose Garden and the Portland Trail Blazers host the Indiana Pacers. The Blazers come in riding a four game winning streak, while the Pacers have dropped three in a row, and nine of their last twelve. Things are not going so well in Pacer land, and not just because they're using Tyler "Psycho T" Hansbrough with regularity.
The most baffling similarity between these two teams is their playoff position, as both come in holding down the eighth seed in their respective conferences. The only problem with that, however, is that the Blazers are currently sitting at 24-20 while the Pacers are well below .500 at 16-23. If they played in the Western Conference the Pacers would be bottom feeding, praying the ping pong balls in the draft lottery would treat them kindly. As it stands, they will earn the right to get swept by Boston in the first round of the playoffs.