Portland Trail Blazers fell to depleted Philadelphia

From the first quarter, itself Blazers were trailing behind with 27-21, in the next quarter, they did pick up the pace and made a comeback to win the quarter with 32-27 to reduce the deficit to just one point 54-53 by halftime. Damien Lillard put on a poor performance shooting-wise 2 of 11 from the field and made 1 of 7 threes for eight points in the first quarter. Later in the third quarter while Billups pushed the team to perform better Blazers slipped and fell behind by as much as 86-74.

Despite the fact that 76ers were missing their stars and Billups went with a four-guard lineup of Lillard, McCollum, Powell, and Simons and even had center Jusuf Nurkic down the stretch. Blazers couldn't stop the Philadelphia 76ers from scoring and ended up losing with 113-103.