PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -While Brandon Roy’s return may have given the Trail Blazers reason to hope, the Phoenix Suns have the more tangible advantage in their first-round playoff series: a 3-2 edge.
The series swings back to Portland for Game 5 on Thursday with the Blazers on the brink of elimination. Roy says he wants to start, less than two weeks since he underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair the torn meniscus in his right knee.
The All-Star guard missed the first three games against the Suns, but made a surprising and dramatic return in Game 4 – electrifying the Rose Garden crowd with a key three-pointer in the fourth quarter that carried the Blazers to a 96-87 victory.
But the bravado-pumped Blazers could not overcome the quicker Suns back in Phoenix on Monday night in a sobering 107-88 loss.
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