{"id":471903,"date":"2025-12-13T22:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/471903\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:52:11","slug":"clingan-williams-likely-to-play-vs-warriors-holiday-nearing-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/471903\/","title":{"rendered":"Clingan\/Williams Likely to Play vs Warriors; Holiday Nearing Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Ahead of a Sunday matchup with the Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers interim head coach Tiago Splitter provided some promising injury updates to reporters after team practice on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trail Blazers team reporter Casey Holdahl relayed that information on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CHold\/status\/1999936749712417022\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media<\/a>, presenting status updates on Blazers centers Donovan Clingan and Robert Williams III, as well as guards Jrue Holiday and Matisse Thybulle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Sounds like Donovan and Rob will play versus Warriors. Jrue is getting close [to returning], Matisse is still out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Clingan has missed the past three games due to a left lower leg contusion, while Williams has missed the past two due to an illness. Holiday has missed the past 13 games due to a right calf strain. Thybulle has missed the last 20 games after undergoing surgery to repair a tear of the ulnar collateral ligament in his left thumb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers tip off against the Warriors at the Moda Center on Sunday at 6 p.m. Pacific.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We\u2019ll have a more definitive update on the statuses of Clingan and Williams for Sunday\u2019s game when the Blazers release their injury report later on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of a Sunday matchup with the Golden State Warriors, Portland Trail Blazers interim head coach Tiago Splitter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,52896,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-471903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-injury-report","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115714716444999462","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}