Memphis Grizzlies (20-30, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (24-28, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Saturday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Western Conference foes Portland and Memphis meet on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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The Trail Blazers are 19-15 in Western Conference games. Portland is eighth in the Western Conference scoring 115.6 points while shooting 45.0% from the field.<\/p>\n
The Grizzlies are 16-18 in conference matchups. Memphis ranks second in the Western Conference with 28.9 assists per game led by Cam Spencer averaging 5.6.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers’ 14.1 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.2 fewer made shots on average than the 14.3 per game the Grizzlies give up. The Grizzlies are shooting 45.7% from the field, 1.6% lower than the 47.3% the Trail Blazers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
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The teams meet for the third time this season. The Trail Blazers won 135-115 in the last matchup on Feb. 7. Jerami Grant led the Trail Blazers with 23 points, and Spencer led the Grizzlies with 18 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Toumani Camara is scoring 12.9 points per game and averaging 5.3 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Shaedon Sharpe is averaging 20.7 points and 4.1 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Spencer is scoring 12.0 points per game and averaging 2.7 rebounds for the Grizzlies. Jaylen Wells is averaging 2.2 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
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LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 114.7 points, 47.2 rebounds, 23.5 assists, 8.3 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 116.5 points per game.<\/p>\n
Grizzlies: 3-7, averaging 117.2 points, 42.8 rebounds, 28.8 assists, 8.6 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 46.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 121.9 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Deni Avdija: day to day (back), Matisse Thybulle: out (knee), Shaedon Sharpe: day to day (calf), Kris Murray: day to day (lumbar), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
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Grizzlies: Kyle Anderson: day to day (illness), Ja Morant: out (elbow), Zach Edey: out (ankle), Santi Aldama: day to day (knee), Kentavious Caldwell-Pope: day to day (rest), Ty Jerome: day to day (calf), Brandon Clarke: out (calf).<\/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 The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Memphis Grizzlies (20-30, 11th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (24-28, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,2710,8675,125,980,294,178,2597,5673,865,7212,2870,7211,293,177,4070,6,4485,471,1185,4426,181,26825,7140,1617,1201,574,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-587942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-brandon-clarke","10":"tag-cam-spencer","11":"tag-damian-lillard","12":"tag-deni-avdija","13":"tag-grizzlies","14":"tag-ja-morant","15":"tag-jaylen-wells","16":"tag-jerami-grant","17":"tag-kentavious-caldwell-pope","18":"tag-kris-murray","19":"tag-kyle-anderson","20":"tag-matisse-thybulle","21":"tag-memphis","22":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","23":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-points-per-game","26":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","27":"tag-santi-aldama","28":"tag-shaedon-sharpe","29":"tag-the-grizzlies","30":"tag-the-trail-blazers","31":"tag-toumani-camara","32":"tag-trail-blazers","33":"tag-ty-jerome","34":"tag-western-conference","35":"tag-zach-edey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116028374401378427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587942","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=587942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}