There is still much to be done this season for the Trail Blazers — clinching homecourt advantage and winning a playoff series among them —but for a moment Wednesday, they were able to pause and reflect.



After a 116-89 win over Memphis, the Blazers had reached the coveted 50-win milestone, something that hadn’t been done in these parts in four seasons. But their reflection Wednesday wasn’t so much about 50 wins as it was about the journey, and what they learned along the way.



See, this has been a season when the Blazers have absorbed a series of emotional body blows.



Three days before the season opened, owner Paul Allen suddenly died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And 10 days ago, as the Blazers were beating Brooklyn to clinch a playoff berth, Jusuf Nurkic’s season ended with a grotesque compound fracture of the bones in his left leg. That trauma was just nine days after the team rushed from the bench to the...