{"id":555245,"date":"2026-01-23T10:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:16:27","slug":"deni-avdija-dealing-with-back-pain-possible-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/555245\/","title":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija Dealing with Back Pain, Possible Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Portland Trail Blazers won a resounding 123-107 victory over the Miami Heat on Thursday night but Portland star Deni Avdija had to leave the game after just 18 minutes of play due to back pain. The good news is that Avdija scored 20 points in those 18 minutes. The better news is that, at this point, he\u2019s expected to play tomorrow versus the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Blazer\u2019s Edge correspondent Conor Bergin shared the news from Head Coach Tiago Splitter <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cbergin.bsky.social\/post\/3md2yfsews22h\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via BlueSky<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Avdija is averaging 26 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists in 35 minutes per game for the Blazers this season. He\u2019s appeared in 41 out of Portland\u2019s 44 games but did not dress for 3 of their 4 games prior to tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Trail Blazers won a resounding 123-107 victory over the Miami Heat on Thursday night but Portland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":555246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,37660,144,295,189,3881,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-555245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-heat","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-news","10":"tag-heat","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-heat","13":"tag-miamiheat","14":"tag-nba"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115943898390818553","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555245","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=555245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/555246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}