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Blazers' CJ McCollum on Game 2 vs. Nuggets: 'We Ain't Got No Suckas on Our Roster'

Jenna Ciccotelli

May 25, 2021

With a foul-filled Game 2 in the rearview, Portland Trail Blazers star CJ McCollum said his team won't back down in its first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets.

"We ain't got no suckas on our roster," McCollum told reporters after Monday's game. "And we not really going for a lot of stuff. I think they have a lot of players who play hard and do a lot of those same things. So, I enjoy it. I don't mind it. It's just part of the playoffs."

Denver won 128-109 in a game that featured four technical fouls and a pair of flagrant fouls, one of which was assessed to McCollum after he shoved Nuggets guard Facundo Campazzo.