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Game 774 - Season 5 gets underway

Denver Nuggets at Portland Trailblazers
October 23, 2019 at Moda Center in Portland, OR
ESPN

Doris Burke getting the new season started the right way with our first "dribble drive". It came with 7:59 left in the fourth quarter of Denver's 108-100 victory.


Here's the full dribble drive list

Game 609: (6) New Orleans Pelicans at (3) Portland Trailblazers

Western Conference first round
Game 1
April 14 at Moda Center in Portland, OR
ABC

Great playoff opener for the sixth-seeded Pelicans, who got huge performances from Anthony Davis (35 and 14 with four blocked shots) and Rajon Rondo (17 assists) and stunned the No. 3 seed 97-95.

Jrue Holiday added 21 points on 10-of-20 shooting. Rondo's assist total is his highest in the playoffs since also getting 17 in the Celtics' win over Philadelphia in the 2012 Eastern Conference semifinals.

Portland's top two players - Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum - were held to a combined 13-of-41 shooting and the hosts shot just 37% overall.

Games 403-404: Opening round continues

404 - Western Conference first round
Golden State Warriors at Portland Trailblazers
April 22 at Moda Center in Portland, OR
ESPN

403 - Western Conference first round
San Antonio Spurs at Memphis Grizzlies
April 22 at FedEx Forum in Memphis, TN
ESPN

Kawhi Leonard, my goodness. Leonard scored 43 points, including the tying three in the corner with 10 seconds left in overtime. Unfortunately for the Spurs, Marc Gasol's 12-foot floater with less than a second to go was the difference in Memphis' 110-108 victory. Memphis, which was swept by the Spurs in last season's opening round, evened the best-of-7 series at 2-2 with game five set for April 25.

Leonard, who scored the last 16 (!) San Antonio points in regulation & also had six of his team's 11 steals, and Mike Conley (franchise postseason-record 35 points, nine rebounds, eight assists) went back and forth all game.

Gasol (16 and 12) also beat the halftime buzzer with a Conley-assisted long two.