The crash

Portland has come back down to earth

Coming into the restart, the Blazers were just 29-37. They were 3.5 games back of the No. 8 seed Grizzlies, and FiveThirtyEight’s RAPTOR-based predictions gave them only a 12 percent chance of making the playoffs. In our bubble preview series I said that might have underestimated their chances given the way their schedule lined up and the returns of bot…