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Sonics Give Blazers Tit for Tat

99-87 win comes on heels of hard-fought loss

By Katherine Thompson, Newser Staff

Posted Feb 23, 2008 5:26 AM CST

(Newser) – The night after a close Trail Blazers victory over the SuperSonics in Portland, the two teams moved to Seattle to battle again, and everything changed. The Sonics had little trouble dispatching the Blazers 99-87, combining 17 points from Kevin Durant with five other double-digit contributions... Read full story »

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