Portland will have to try to stay alive without its star Damian Lillard (24.3 points per game since the start of the play-offs). The Blazers, led 3-1 in their first-round series against the Lakers, announced that their leader suffered from a sprained right knee and therefore could not participate in Game 5, scheduled for Wednesday night in Thursday.
Lillard was injured in Game 4 in which he had to leave his teammates. Without him, the Blazers are more than ever on the brink of this showdown.
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