Cleveland Cavaliers (29-21, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (23-26, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Sunday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Portland looks to end its four-game losing streak when the Trail Blazers play Cleveland.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers have gone 13-11 at home. Portland is fourth in the Western Conference in rebounding with 45.7 rebounds. Donovan Clingan leads the Trail Blazers with 11.1 boards.<\/p>\n
The Cavaliers are 12-10 on the road. Cleveland ranks eighth in the NBA with 28.4 assists per game led by Donovan Mitchell averaging 5.8.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers’ 14.0 made 3-pointers per game this season are the same per game average that the Cavaliers give up. The Cavaliers are shooting 47.2% from the field, 0.1% higher than the 47.1% the Trail Blazers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the second time this season. In the last meeting on Dec. 4 the Trail Blazers won 122-110 led by 27 points from Deni Avdija, while Mitchell scored 33 points for the Cavaliers.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Shaedon Sharpe is averaging 21.9 points and 1.5 steals for the Trail Blazers. Caleb Love is averaging 13.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jaylon Tyson is averaging 13.9 points and 5.5 rebounds for the Cavaliers. Mitchell is averaging 26.7 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 110.4 points, 47.0 rebounds, 21.6 assists, 8.8 steals and 4.9 blocks per game while shooting 44.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: 7-3, averaging 115.8 points, 45.8 rebounds, 29.1 assists, 8.5 steals and 5.0 blocks per game while shooting 47.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: day to day (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (knee), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Duop Reath: out for season (foot), Kris Murray: out (back), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Cavaliers: Craig Porter Jr.: day to day (knee), Max Strus: out (foot), Evan Mobley: out (calf), Darius Garland: out (foot).<\/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":"Cleveland Cavaliers (29-21, fifth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (23-26, 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":[3],"tags":[77638,1297,2889,7,6,446,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-572725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-77638","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115989239947072077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572725","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=572725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572725\/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=572725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}