The Portland Trail Blazers rallied back from 21 down in the fourth quarter on Wednesday night, only to fall to Nikola Vucevic’s buzzer-beating three-pointer as the Chicago Bulls handed them a 122-121 loss in a stunner.

To say the Blazers were shorthanded would be a severe understatement. Shaedon Sharpe and Robert Williams III were the latest additions to the rapidly expanding injury report which already included Jrue Holiday, Scoot Henderson, Damian Lillard, and Blake Wesley. This forced Portland’s Tiago Splitter to do some coaching on the fly.

After a back-and-forth first half, Chicago seized control late in the third quarter and it looked like the game was heading to garbage time. A late fourth-quarter run turned that notion on its head. The Blazers were in position to steal a win but

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