With five games remaining in the Portland Trail Blazers 2011-12 season -- all against playoff contenders -- the young guns will get a chance to play spoiler tonight in Phoenix. For your pregame enjoyment, here's a quick look around the web at the latest Blazers news and notes:





• Brendan Bowers of SLAM with a

, who says he'd like to re-sign with the Blazers this summer: "Of course, I would love it. I’ve been getting some positive feedback from Coach, and from the organization as a whole, and I would love to re-sign here. As far as the guys on the court, as far as my teammates go, we all like each other off the court and we all get along too. Guys hang out off the court, and I think that builds a chemistry that leads to winning basketball. So I would love to come back here, continue to be a Portland Trailblazer, and help be part of something special that we’re building here."

• The Columbian's Matt Calkins with a deep look into

really is: Luke had so many technical fouls his junior year at Galena High (at least 10 by his count), that school administrators had to implement a rule stating that a player would be ejected after just one T. It’s not that Babbitt was a bully, he just had a competitive drive that would leave 19-for-20 shooting nights 5 percent short of expectations.

• Dwight jaynes of CSNNW.com has seen enough from Portland's point guards to know none will lead the team next season. So

, asks Jaynes: And really, the team we're watching right now has no real connection to what we'll see next season. Changes -- big changes -- are coming and what happens over these last five games doesn't matter much, anyway.

• The Phoenix Suns are

with six games remaining, five of which are at home.

• More on the

If the Suns win at home against Portland and Denver wins at Houston tonight, the Suns will move into an eighth-place tie with Houston and have the tiebreaker based on a better intraconference record. Houston is at 21-22 against the West now and the Suns are at 21-21.

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