The Portland Trail Blazers might’ve discovered the most crushing way to lose a basketball game Wednesday night.

Fighting through a losing skid, severely shorthanded again, and seemingly without a pulse early in the fourth quarter, the Blazers pulled off a comeback for the ages against the Chicago Bulls at the Moda Center. Portland unleashed a 32-7 run to claw back from a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit and somehow take a 120-116 lead with 16 seconds left.

After all that, a deep 3 from Coby White and missed free throws from Blazers forwards Jerami Grant and Deni Avdija still exposed Portland to potential heartbreak. The Bulls had the ball, trailing by two, with 7.2 seconds remaining. White drove, spun and kicked out to a wide-open Nikola Vucevic from beyond the arc. The big man buried it

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