home and still have some solid pieces to roll with, but it is going to be awfully tough for them to keep it together in this one. The shock of losing their best two players will hit hard and with Portland carrying all the momentum and confidence, I expect the Blazers to storm into their third straight win.

The harsh reality is Portland had pieced together a strong strategy to take down the Clippers at their best, and it was already working in their last two wins. The other arguably scarier aspect is they boast one of the more explosive offenses in the league, yet it still hasn’t shown up through four games. There is a pretty good chance it arrives in a game five win.

Series Bet: Blazers in-- as in, locked away from the curious eyes of children. One of those states was Washington where in 2013, the NRA managed to kill an attempt to mandate safe storage. One year later, Sandy Aponte's son, Eddie, was killed by another child unintentionally when the boys got a hold of a loaded gun another friend's stepfather left laying around. Sandy's story is one of those we tell in Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA. The film traces the connection between gun company profits and the NRA.

Those profits are amplified by the NRA's marketing strategy which can be summed up as "keep em' scared." That is why they have fought mandatory safe storage. The line they use is that people need to be able to get