Five takeaways from the Lakers' 113-110 loss to the Trail Blazers

The rivalry between the Trail Blazers and the Lakers has fizzled lately as the Lakers’ relevance in the West has faded, but you wouldn’t know that in Portland’s Moda Center.

Late in a tightly contested game, chants of “Beat L.A.” rang through the arena, silenced when the Lakers’ Kentavious Caldwell-Pope...