It was a nice ride for Charles Barkley on the Portland Trail Blazers wagon.
After the Blazers defeated the # 1 seeded Los Angeles Lakers in Game One of this Western Conference first-round playoff bout, Barkley pulled out the broom calling for a sweep.
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Three games and three pretty hard and headache losses later, Chuck withdrew his statement.
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I’ll take the hats off the Portland Trail Blazers, they haven’t given up. They had no chance of winning that game in the second half and competed. But obviously I was wrong.
He may end up wrong. The Blazers have over 9% chance of making it to the playoffs to clinch the eighth and final seeded in the Western Conference playoffs, but we’re happy Chuck Stan is for the Blazers.
Fighting from a 3-1 hole is no easy feat.
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One thing Chuck said should come to light is that the Trail Blazers never stop. Despite lopsided wrong calls or the possibility of Damian Lillard not playing in the fifth game (receiving an MRI at the time of this article published), Portland is a team that will not give up.
The fifth game of the series will take place on Wednesday, August 26 here on NBC Sports Northwest or stream it on the My Teams app.
