{"id":17379,"date":"2014-05-09T06:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=17379"},"modified":"2014-05-09T07:47:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-09T07:47:45","slug":"nba-playoffs-trailblazers-discover-rattlesnake-in-locker-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=17379","title":{"rendered":"NBA playoffs: Trailblazers discover rattlesnake in locker room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers entered the visitors&#8217; locker room at the AT&amp;T Center on Thursday and found a surprise guest. There was a rattlesnake inside of forward Thomas Robinson&#8217;s locker.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Trail Blazers greeted by rattlesnake in San Antonio locker room <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23RipCity&amp;src=hash\">#RipCity<\/a> READ || <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/T1iLmIc6G6\">http:\/\/t.co\/T1iLmIc6G6<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/OhRpu9i87a\">pic.twitter.com\/OhRpu9i87a<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/trailblazers\/statuses\/464554365932802049\">May 8, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But instead of this being motivation, the Blazers lost anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Portland coach Terry Stotts is now running out of adjectives and analogies to describe the San Antonio Spurs&#8217; dominance in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Kawhi Leonard scored 20 points, Tony Parker had 16 points and 10 assists, and San Antonio rolled to a 114-97 victory over the Trail Blazers on Thursday night for a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>After being struck by a &#8221;tidal wave&#8221; during the second quarter of the opener, Portland took on even more water in Game 2.<br \/>\n&#8221;The onslaught at the beginning of the second quarter was obviously the turning point in the game,&#8221; Stotts said.<\/p>\n<p>Boris Diaw scored six straight points to ignite a 23-8 run that gave San Antonio a 54-36 lead with 7 minutes remaining in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The Spurs outscored the Trail Blazers 41-25 in the second quarter, raising their advantage to 77-48 in that period in winning the first two games of the best-of-seven series convincingly.<br \/>\nNicolas Batum scored 21 points for the Trail Blazers. Damian Lillard had 19 points and LaMarcus Aldridge added 16 points and 10 rebounds, but the Trail Blazers&#8217; All-Star duo put up 43 shots.<\/p>\n<p>Aldridge was 6 for 23, missing back-to-back dunks in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We missed a lot of shots,&#8221; Aldridge said. &#8221;I definitely wasn&#8217;t in a good rhythm tonight. I missed two dunks and four or five layups, so if those shots go in, then the whole game is different.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Trail Blazers host Game 3 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>Source: ESPN and AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trail Blazers entered the visitors&#8217; locker room at the AT&amp;T Center on Thursday and found a surprise guest. There was a rattlesnake inside of forward Thomas Robinson&#8217;s locker. Trail Blazers greeted by rattlesnake in San Antonio locker room #RipCity READ || http:\/\/t.co\/T1iLmIc6G6 pic.twitter.com\/OhRpu9i87a \u2014 Trail Blazers (@trailblazers) May 8, 2014 But instead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":17380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[438,3,439,31],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-1-district-1-factory","tag-ghana-news","tag-mtn-mobile-money","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}