2-06-1990. FYI: Master was almost an F grade, so this version is much improved even if not up to my usual standards. Blazers by 89/90 were a good team, that year's Western Finals participant. Every game against them for the next couple of years was a battle, and it's always hard for Laker teams winning in Portland, since time immemorial. I purposely left in moments where you could tell the refs were being cute and trying to make the game into a game for the ages. Magic Johnson was the 1990 NBA MVP.