PLAYOFF SERIES NOTES

• This will be the first ever meeting between the Trail Blazers and Warriors in the NBA Playoffs. Golden State is one of two Western Conference teams that Portland has never matched up against in the postseason (New Orleans). Each of Portland’s last three playoff series have come against team’s it has never faced in the postseason (Memphis, Los Angeles).



• Since Portland became a franchise in 1970, Portland has made the playoffs 32 times, while Golden State has qualified 16 times. The two teams have both reached the playoffs in the same year in nine of those seasons.



• The Trail Blazers are advancing to the Western Conference Semifinals for the second time in the past three seasons (11th time overall).



• By earning the fifth seed, the Trail Blazers have finished in the top-5 in the Western Conference in three consecutive seasons for the first time since doing so in four straight seasons from 1989-90 to 1992-93.



• In NBA postseason history, teams that lost the regular-season series versus their playoff opponent are 158-387 in those postseason series (entering the 2016 NBA Playoffs). Portland defeated the Clippers 4-2 despite dropping three of four regular season games.





CONNECTIONS

• Golden State head coach Steve Kerr finished first in voting for the 2016 NBA Coach of the Year, while Portland’s Terry Stotts finished as the NBA’s runner-up.



• Warriors head coach Steve Kerr played one season for the Trail Blazers during the 2001-02 campaign.



• Warriors guard Klay Thompson is the son of former Trail Blazer Mychal Thompson, who the Trail Blazers selected first overall in the 1978 NBA Draft. Thompson played seven years in Portland (1978-86).



• Golden State assistant coach Luke Walton is the son of Bill Walton, who was a member of Portland’s 1976-77 NBA Championship team. Bill Walton spent his first four NBA seasons with the Trail Blazers from 1974-75 to 1977-78.

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