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Blazers guard Damian Lillard shoots over Denver center Nikola Jokic Monday in the first game of the
second round playoff series. The Nuggets won 121-113. (AP photo)
Blazers Begin Second Round
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(AP) —The Denver Nuggets
rode a 37-point performance from
center Nikola Jokic to a 121-113
win over the well-rested Portland
Trail Blazers Monday night in
the opener of their second-round
playoff series, despite Damian
Lillard’s strong 39-point effort
and Enes Katner’s formative re-
turn.
Lillard, who struck for 50
points, including a 37-footer at the
Shout it out for the Franklin
High Lightning.
The southeast Portland school
has made a decision on the likely
name for their new mascot.
A selection committee has
picked Lightning over two other
finalists, the Ambassadors and the
Thunderbolts. The school board is
expected to vote on the nickname
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in June.
Franklin had to cut its old
nickname – Quakers – when the
board updated school naming pol-
icies last year, forbidding names
deemed discriminatory or too re-
ligious.
The Lightning keeps a connec-
tion with Benjamin Franklin, the
school’s namesake.
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points with nine minutes left, but
Jokic sank a pair of free throws
off CJ McCollum’s flagrant foul
sandwiched by a pair of dunks by
Mason Plumlee as Denver pushed
its lead back to double digits at
107-96.
Game two in the best-of-seven
series is Wednesday at the Pepsi
Center in Denver. Games three
and four will be on Friday and
Sunday in Portland.
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buzzer to oust Oklahoma City in
five games, missed 8 of 12 3-point
attempts and Gary Harris blocked
his 3 from behind in the closing
minute to keep the Trail Blazers
from closing in.
Kanter separated his left shoul-
der in Game 5 against the Thunder
but scored 26 points in his return
to the lineup.
Back-to-back layups by Lil-
lard pulled Portland to within five
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be very important part of the
process is the connection Ben
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had regards to his experiments,
in particular with electricity and
lightning, we thought it was a
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