—– Deni Avdija recorded a triple-double and Donovan Clingan scored a career-high 24 points and added 12 rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the San Antonio Spurs 115-110 Saturday night at Frost Bank Center in San Antonio.<\/p>\n
Deni Avdija finished with 29 points, 11 rebounds, and 10 assists and Donovan Clingan scored a career-high 24 as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the San Antonio Spurs 115-110 Saturday night at Frost Bank Center.<\/p>\n
Clingan got off to a hot start with 14 points in the first quarter on 3-of-4 shooting from three-point range.<\/p>\n
Portland (16-20) connected on 19-of-45 from beyond-the-arc.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers built a 15-point lead in the second quarter but the Spurs responded with a 15-1 run. Portland led by four at halftime.<\/p>\n
Portland took control of the game with a 19-6 run at the end of the third quarter and beginning of the fourth. <\/p>\n
San Antonio (25-10) used a 30-18 fourth quarter run to cut Portland’s lead to just one. Avdija would respond with a three-pointer with 49.6 seconds remaining to end the Spurs threat.<\/p>\n
Once again, free throws were an issue for the Trail Blazers. Portland connected on just 16-of-27 from the line and made just 4-of-10 in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
With the win, the Trail Blazers improved to 4-1 in their last five games and finished up their three-game road trip at 2-1.<\/p>\n
Up Next- The Trail Blazers return to Portland to meet the Jazz on Monday evening. The game is scheduled to tip off at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Chad’s Take- Quality road trip for the depleted Blazers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"—– Deni Avdija recorded a triple-double and Donovan Clingan scored a career-high 24 points and added 12 rebounds…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,52956,1314,980,974,7779,2992,4076,2289,7212,4996,6,471,7217,969,474,4075,4074,4426,534,930,15840,7140,574],"class_list":["post-515730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio-spurs","tag-basketball","tag-chad-doing","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-deni-avdija","tag-donovan-clingan","tag-frost-bank-center","tag-harrison-barnes","tag-julian-champagnie","tag-kelly-olynyk","tag-kris-murray","tag-luke-kornet","tag-nba","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-rayan-rupert","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-sanantonio","tag-sanantoniospurs","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-spurs","tag-stephon-castle","tag-tiago-splitter","tag-toumani-camara","tag-western-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115835991821591559","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515730","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=515730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}