New York Knicks (24-14, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (19-20, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Sunday, 6 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: New York will attempt to end its three-game road losing streak when the Knicks play Portland.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers have gone 10-9 at home. Portland has a 6-8 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n
The Knicks are 8-10 on the road. New York averages 119.4 points while outscoring opponents by 4.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are shooting 44.7% from the field this season, 2.0 percentage points lower than the 46.7% the Knicks allow to opponents. The Knicks average 119.4 points per game, 0.7 more than the 118.7 the Trail Blazers allow.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Deni Avdija is scoring 26.1 points per game with 7.1 rebounds and 7.0 assists for the Trail Blazers. Shaedon Sharpe is averaging 20.0 points and 4.2 rebounds while shooting 40.7% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Mikal Bridges is scoring 15.9 points per game and averaging 4.7 rebounds for the Knicks. Jalen Brunson is averaging 25.8 points and 2.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 7-3, averaging 113.1 points, 45.7 rebounds, 24.9 assists, 6.9 steals and 3.8 blocks per game while shooting 45.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Knicks: 4-6, averaging 115.8 points, 45.9 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 7.3 steals and 3.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.8 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: out (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Jerami Grant: out (achilles), Kris Murray: out (back), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Knicks: Landry Shamet: out (shoulder), Josh Hart: out (ankle), Guerschon Yabusele: out (quad).<\/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":"New York Knicks (24-14, third in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (19-20, ninth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3768],"tags":[72890,1297,2889,7,304,6,446,1136,191,3810,3806,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-526998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-knicks","8":"tag-72890","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-knicks","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-knicks","17":"tag-newyork","18":"tag-newyorkknicks","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115870881739484062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526998","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=526998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526998\/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=526998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}