Trail Blazers' Starting Lineup Against Nuggets

The Portland Trail Blazers are on the road in Colorado to face the Denver Nuggets in Game 1 of their playoff series on Saturday night.
The Nuggets finished the season as the third seed with potential MVP Nikola Jokic, and the Trail Blazers finished as the sixth seed with All-Star Damian Lillard.
The Trail Blazers have announced their starting lineup, and the full lineup can be seen in a post below from FantasyLabs NBA.
Lineup note: Blazers will start Lillard, McCollum, Powell, Covington, Nurkic on Saturday.
— FantasyLabs NBA (@FantasyLabsNBA) May 23, 2021
The Nuggets are 1.5-point favorites over the Trail Blazers in Denver on Saturday night for Game 1 of the playoffs, according to FanDuel.
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Ben Stinar is a former beat writer for AllPacers.com. He is a 2021 Hilltop30 Scholarship Fund recipient.