Dunc n Dave
01-14-2012, 03:24 PM
SAN ANTONIO — The start of a six-game, nine-day trip couldn’t have gone any worse for the Trail Blazers, who were struck by a triple dose of bad news on Friday the 13th.
The Blazers were outclassed, outworked and outmanned by the San Antonio Spurs, falling 99-83 before a sellout crowd of 18,581 at the AT&T Center. And that was just part of a day to forget.
In the second quarter of the defeat, center Marcus Camby sprained his left ankle and is not expected to play tonight, when the Blazers visit the Houston Rockets in the second game of a Texas back-to-back.
As if that double whammy weren’t bad enough, off the court, negotiations between the Blazers and small forward Nicolas Batum hit a snag when the sides met for roughly two hours Friday morning in San Antonio without coming to terms on a contract extension.
“It’s tough,” forward LaMarcus Aldridge said of the Blazers’ loss to the Spurs. He might as well have been summing up the day....
http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2012/01/its_a_triple_dose_of_bad_news_for_trail_blazers_on .html
The Blazers were outclassed, outworked and outmanned by the San Antonio Spurs, falling 99-83 before a sellout crowd of 18,581 at the AT&T Center. And that was just part of a day to forget.
In the second quarter of the defeat, center Marcus Camby sprained his left ankle and is not expected to play tonight, when the Blazers visit the Houston Rockets in the second game of a Texas back-to-back.
As if that double whammy weren’t bad enough, off the court, negotiations between the Blazers and small forward Nicolas Batum hit a snag when the sides met for roughly two hours Friday morning in San Antonio without coming to terms on a contract extension.
“It’s tough,” forward LaMarcus Aldridge said of the Blazers’ loss to the Spurs. He might as well have been summing up the day....
http://www.oregonlive.com/blazers/index.ssf/2012/01/its_a_triple_dose_of_bad_news_for_trail_blazers_on .html