Toronto Raptors (27-19, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (23-22, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Raptors -4.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Portland comes into a matchup with Toronto as winners of four games in a row.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers have gone 13-10 in home games. Portland ranks eighth in the NBA with 45.3 rebounds led by Donovan Clingan averaging 10.8.<\/p>\n The Raptors are 14-9 on the road. Toronto averages 114.3 points while outscoring opponents by 1.8 points per game.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers are shooting 45.1% from the field this season, 1.3 percentage points lower than the 46.4% the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors average 114.3 points per game, 3.7 fewer than the 118.0 the Trail Blazers allow.<\/p>\n The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Raptors defeated the Trail Blazers 121-118 in their last meeting on Dec. 3. Scottie Barnes led the Raptors with 28 points, and Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 25 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Avdija is averaging 26 points, 7.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists for the Trail Blazers. Shaedon Sharpe is averaging 22.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Brandon Ingram is averaging 21.8 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.8 assists for the Raptors. Barnes is averaging 20.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 8-2, averaging 117.0 points, 45.0 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 8.3 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.3 points per game.<\/p>\n Raptors: 6-4, averaging 114.2 points, 41.7 rebounds, 31.1 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Kris Murray: out (back), Deni Avdija: day to day (back), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n Raptors: Jakob Poeltl: out (back), Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (thumb), RJ Barrett: day to day (ankle), Ja’Kobe Walter: out (hip).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (27-19, fourth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (23-22, 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":[3770],"tags":[75962,1297,2889,7,6,446,681,66,680,476,3820],"class_list":{"0":"post-555319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-raptors","8":"tag-75962","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-raptors","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toronto","17":"tag-toronto-raptors","18":"tag-torontoraptors"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115944122526483163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555319","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=555319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555319\/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=555319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}