The real winners here are the Spurs.
Well, except for the fact that they now have to face OKC (who has always made their lives difficult) where the Ws (if they get past Houston) get to face the young Blazers or decimated Clippers.
I agree that the Blazers will be no cakewalk, especially with Curry likely missing at least a couple games, but they're almost certainly an easier draw than a healthy Clips would have been. The Clips are the last team to knock the Ws out of the playoffs; hate the Ws and always seem to get up for them; and this season had big leads on them in the 4th quarter in a couple of games. Even playing much of this year without Blake, they finished #6 in the league in offense and a surprisingly excellent #4 in defense. Last year with the same roster they were #1 in offense (a hair ahead of GS). And anecdotally, their bench, a sore spot in recent years, was starting to pick things up late in the season (with Rivers and Aldrich in particular starting to look like legit NBA rotation players). Put that all together with good health and you have a legit outside title contender, imho.
The young Blazers, by contrast, were #7 in offense and #20 in defense, which is basically Houston Rockets level. They're also down a fairly key rotation player in Meyers Leonard.
Just an unbelievable gut punch for Clips Nation, and I say that with no joy or schadenfreude. They had literally less than a half-day window of hope after the Curry MRI came out that this might finally be the year CP3 and the team could break through to WC Finals, or maybe beyond -- before the cruel hoops gods cut down not one but both of their franchise players in the same freaking game. A truly terrible blow for CP3 (a perennially elite player who deserves better), Clips fans, and really all basketball fans, who have been deprived of what could have been an epic Warriors-Clippers showdown with both teams at full strength.