Live from the Rose Garden as the Portland Trail Blazers welcome the San Antonio Spurs. While most casual fans think the honor of the NBA's best team belongs to the Miami Heat or world champion Los Angeles Lakers, the Spurs are actually the top team in the league. And it's not even close. San Antonio has 40 wins to just seven losses on the year and are coasting to a Southwest Division title.
In other news, the Send LA to LA campaign worked! A Portland Trail Blazer is going to the All-Star game. Too bad it probably won't be LaMarcus Aldridge. Instead his teammate Wesley Matthews was selected this afternoon to take part in the Rookie-Sophomore game. Congrats, Wes. Have fun being dunked on by Blake Griffin in front of millions of television viewers the world over.
And there's more good news: Nicolas Batum will not only play in tonight's game, he's starting. Batum left last Thursday's matchup against Boston with a frightening knee injury—the first ever in team history (note to self: please fact check this before publishing)—that turned out just to be a bone bruise. He left the arena Thursday night on crutches and had an MRI the following morning, but he'll still suit up tonight. This proves it: the French never surrender. Never.
Let's surrender to some tedious live blog action...