Blazers brace for record-setting Clippers

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The Los Angeles Clippers couldn't have dreamed for a better lead-in to their clash with the host Portland Trail Blazers on Thursday night.

The Clippers sent statisticians scurrying through the record books in an emphatic opening leg of a back-to-back set on Wednesday, demolishing the Brooklyn Nets 126-67 in Inglewood, Calif.

Los Angeles' 59-point margin of victory was the biggest