J.E. Skeets

For us, soccer, football, is a story we've shared for over 30 years since Daniel was the star player on our high school soccer team.

Very debatable.

And I was their most loyal and sometimes only fan.

I love this game.

I love its history, its hope, its heartbreak, and above all, its beauty.

Okay, let's talk about another Western Conference matchup.

Drew Holiday scoring 30, Avdia getting to the line a lot.

He scored 28, filled up the box score.

Blazers beat the Clippers.

This is a big game because of where they are in the play-in standing.

So the Blazers are 39-38.

They're within a half game here for the Clippers for the eighth place and a potential part of the play-in bracket where you get two chances to get into this thing.

But your takeaways from the Blazers, good win here.

The Blazers treated this like it was one of the most important games they had to play the entire season.

And you could tell they had 18 offensive rebounds.

Only two of those went to Donovan Klingin.

When you see 18 in the box score for the Blazers, you're like, oh, Klingin must have went nuts.

But it was really the second unit.

Like, Chris Murray, I think, had four.

And, you know, with a...