The Blazers are 4-0?

Youthful verve and veteran foul-drawing

BY HENRY ABBOTT

Damian Lillard works the referees Friday against the Suns. STEPH CHAMBERS/GETTY IMAGES

With a hair over two minutes left in the fourth quarter of Friday’s Suns at Blazers game, Chris Paul launched a free-throw line jumper. He’s done this infinite times; it usually works. Nevertheless, this shot bounced out, rattled off the hands of bigs, and into the hands of Blazers point guard Damian Lillard, who had been battling with the taller Sun Mikal Bridges.