Today's Best NBA Reporting and Analysis

-  Terry Stotts has transformed Trail Blazers into elite defensive team  (from  Mike Richman, Oregonlive.com): " The Blazers have been a Top 10 defense all season, spending most of the year entrenched in the Top 5 in the NBA in defensive efficiency. "We've picked up where we were last year," Stotts said. "We've shored up our transition defense, we've sh…