On one side of the Portland Trail Blazers locker room, Jerami Grant looked beleaguered.

He was exhausted, famished and sick, visibly showing the effects of a two-day bug that left him nauseous and drained.

On the other side of the locker room, Toumani Camara was reeling from a different kind of pain altogether.

“It was completely my fault,” the Blazers’ defensive stalwart said of his team’s heartbreaking 122-121 defeat to the Chicago Bulls at the Moda Center.

Let’s back up.

As the Blazers prepared to host the Bulls Wednesday night in the second game of a back-to-back, it seemed an impossibility that they would offer much resistance. The injury-riddled group, which already had been playing without all three of its point guards, suffered another blow before tipoff, when starting

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