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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers beat reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers arriving in New York City on Thursday prior to Friday's game versus the Nets in Brooklyn

• Getting an ugly win versus the Jazz in Salt Lake City

• Defeating the Wizards in Washington DC to extend Portland's win streak to three

• Deni Avdija's return to Washington is cut short

• Toumani Camara is supposed to foul

• Shaedon Sharpe's ridiculous dunk in the second quarter of Wednesday's win versus the Wizards

• The NBA's "Dunk Score," which has Shaedon's dunk as the second-best this season, is a farce and should be recalibrated

• Statistics being a poor way to judge the quality of dunks

• The remaining five games on Portland's current seven-game road trip