Today's Best NBA Reporting and Analysis

-  Aldridge returns, Blazers beat Wizards 103-96 (from Eric Gundersen, columbian.com):

" “Even if he didn’t have the monster game that he did, I think his presence and his sacrifice of his own body and for him to recognize how special this season is and can be and continue to be, for him to give that up to be out there with us in the trenches, it speaks …