Utah Jazz (12-21, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (16-20, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Monday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The Utah Jazz take on Deni Avdija and the Portland Trail Blazers in Western Conference action Monday.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 13-13 in conference games. Portland is 5-8 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are 0-6 against opponents in the Northwest Division. Utah is sixth in the Western Conference with 44.5 rebounds per game led by Jusuf Nurkic averaging 9.5.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are shooting 44.6% from the field this season, 4.5 percentage points lower than the 49.1% the Jazz allow to opponents. The Jazz are shooting 46.2% from the field, 1.3% lower than the 47.5% the Trail Blazers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams square off for the second time this season. The Trail Blazers won the last matchup 136-134 on Oct. 30. Jrue Holiday scored 27 points to help lead the Trail Blazers to the win.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Avdija is averaging 25.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and 7.1 assists for the Trail Blazers. Donovan Clingan is averaging 24.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Keyonte George is averaging 24.6 points and 6.8 assists for the Jazz.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 6-4, averaging 111.4 points, 46.0 rebounds, 23.9 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jazz: 3-6, averaging 123.4 points, 41.8 rebounds, 30.9 assists, 7.2 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 128.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: day to day (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Jerami Grant: day to day (achilles), Robert Williams III: day to day (knee), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Jazz: Ace Bailey: day to day (hip), Georges Niang: out (foot), Jusuf Nurkic: day to day (foot), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz (12-21, 13th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (16-20, ninth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[71727,1297,2889,7,601,6,446,687,471,3967,66,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-515747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-71727","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-blazers","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-portland","16":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","17":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515747","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=515747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}