The Portland Trail Blazers have punched their ticket to the second round of the NBA playoffs. The Blazers will play the winner of the San Antonio Spurs and Denver Nuggets. Portland’s playoff schedule for the next round will be announced once the matchup has been finalized. Damian Lillard has been one of the best players in the NBA playoffs through the first round. Lillard believes the adversity the team has overcome played a big role in their play so far in the postseason. “When we had our backs against the wall dealing with those injuries, we trusted each other, we leaned on each other more,” Lillard told NBA.com. “It just made us better in the long run, instead of us saying ‘We got some injuries, Dame you gotta average 35 and do all this extra stuff,’ instead of that the mentality was, ‘Let’s keep the ball moving, make the right plays defensively and let’s just be a better unit.’ Instead of turning to me or somebody else to score a bunch of points. We just made it a group thing and I think that was for our team.” The Blazers went just 1-3 against the Nuggets during the regular season. Portland played better against San Antonio splitting the season series 2-2. The Spurs-Nuggets series can end as soon as Thursday, April 25th. If a Game 7 is necessary, it would take place Saturday, April 27th. We expect to know the exact Blazers playoff schedule at the conclusion of the Spurs-Nuggets series. Here’s a look at the potential second-round dates for the Blazers. Blazers Playoff Schedule: Second Round The Blazers’ first game of the second round will be no later than Tuesday, April 30th. The second round of the NBA playoffs is scheduled to start on April 29th, but could be moved up to April 27th depending on when the first round ends. Here is a look at the second round dates and times, per Sports Media Watch. We will update the Blazers schedule once it has been finalized. Monday, April 29 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Tuesday, April 30 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Wednesday, May 1 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Thursday, May 2 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (ESPN) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Friday, May 3 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (ESPN) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Saturday, May 4 TBD vs. TBD 5:00 p.m. ET (ESPN) TBD vs. TBD 8:30 p.m. ET (ABC) Sunday, May 5 TBD vs. TBD 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC) TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) Monday, May 6 TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Tuesday, May 7 *TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) *TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Wednesday, May 8 *TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (TNT) *TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (TNT) Thursday, May 9 *TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (ESPN) *TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Friday, May 10 *TBD vs. TBD 8:00 p.m. ET (ESPN) *TBD vs. TBD 10:30 p.m. ET (ESPN) Sunday, May 12 *TBD vs. TBD 3:30 p.m. ET (ABC) *If necessary<doc-sep>The Portland Trail Blazers are still waiting to learn their opponent for their second-round series in the NBA playoffs, but this much is known: Game 1 is set for 7:30 p.m. PDT Monday, April 29. With Damian Lillard’s epic game-winner against the Thunder on Tuesday night, the Blazers topped the Thunder 118-115 and won their first-round, best-of-seven series 4-1. The No. 3 seed Blazers will next face either the No. 2 Denver Nuggets or the No. 7 San Antonio Spurs in the Western Conference semifinals. The Nuggets and Spurs are tied 3-3 in that first-round series, with the decisive Game 7 set for 7 p.m. PDT Saturday in Denver. If Denver wins Game 7, the Nuggets would host the Blazers on Monday at Pepsi Center at 8:30 p.m. local time, 7:30 p.m. Pacific time. If the Spurs win Game 7, the Blazers would play host to San Antonio at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Moda Center. The full series schedule will be available after Game 7 of the Nuggets-Spurs series on Saturday night.<doc-sep>
PORTLAND, Ore. (April 23, 2019) – After defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder, 4-1, in the first round of the NBA Playoffs, the Portland Trail Blazers are headed to the NBA Western Conference Semifinals. Tickets for the next round of the postseason, presented by Moda Health and your local Toyota dealers, go on sale at Noon tomorrow (Wednesday) online at trailblazers.com/tix. Portland will face the winner of the Denver Nuggets-San Antonio Spurs series, with Denver currently holding a 3-2 lead in that best-of-seven matchup after a 108-90 victory in Game 5 tonight. Season Ticket Holders should check their e-mail for details about an exclusive presale for the Western Conference Semifinals starting tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. If you are not a Season Ticket Holder but are interested in additional Playoff ticket access, call (844) RIP CITY. For authentic tickets, fraud protection and guaranteed seating, team officials urge fans to only purchase tickets through the authorized website or Rose Quarter Box Office. Led by Damian Lillard with a postseason franchise-high 50 points, Portland wrapped up its 4-1 series defeat of the Thunder, 118-115, before a frenzied sellout crowd of 20,241 at Moda Center. This marks the first advancement by Portland to the conference semifinal round since 2016 and the 12th time in franchise history. For the latest postseason news, stats, content, schedules and fan information, visit “Playoff Central” at trailblazers.com. Starting with the conference semifinals and lasting for the duration of the NBA Playoffs, all televised games for the Trail Blazers will now be carried nationally on either ABC, ESPN or TNT. Fans can still hear local broadcasts of Trail Blazers playoff games on flagship NBC Sports Northwest Rip City Radio AM-620 and across the 21-stations of the Trail Blazers Radio Network.