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Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (26-29, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz<\/a> (18-37, 13th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Salt Lake City; Thursday, 9 p.m. EST<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Trail Blazers -7.5; over\/under is 237.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Portland will try to break its four-game road losing streak when the Trail Blazers face Utah.<\/p>\n

The Jazz have gone 10-24 against Western Conference teams. Utah ranks fifth in the Western Conference with 15.1 fast break points per game led by Lauri Markkanen<\/a> averaging 3.2.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 20-16 against conference opponents. Portland is 10-7 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 16.5 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n

The Jazz average 118.3 points per game, equal to what the Trail Blazers allow. The Trail Blazers average 14.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.1 fewer made shots on average than the 15.5 per game the Jazz give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the third time this season. The Trail Blazers won the last meeting 137-117 on Jan. 6. Deni Avdija<\/a> scored 33 points to help lead the Trail Blazers to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Markkanen is averaging 26.7 points and seven rebounds for the Jazz. Isaiah Collier<\/a> is averaging 15.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Donovan Clingan<\/a> is scoring 11.4 points per game and averaging 11.4 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Toumani Camara<\/a> is averaging 3.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Jazz: 3-7, averaging 114.5 points, 45.1 rebounds, 29.8 assists, 9.5 steals and 4.3 blocks per game while shooting 47.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 118.5 points per game.<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: 3-7, averaging 113.7 points, 48.6 rebounds, 25.6 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.2 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 119.5 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Jazz: Keyonte George: day to day (ankle), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder).<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Matisse Thybulle<\/a>: out (knee), Shaedon Sharpe: day to day (calf), Kris Murray<\/a>: day to day (back), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (26-29, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Utah Jazz (18-37, 13th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3785],"tags":[7,980,974,78812,957,423,7212,976,7211,1407,6,471,7140,422,427,3972],"class_list":{"0":"post-598440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-utah-jazz","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deni-avdija","10":"tag-donovan-clingan","11":"tag-event_preview","12":"tag-isaiah-collier","13":"tag-jazz","14":"tag-kris-murray","15":"tag-lauri-markkanen","16":"tag-matisse-thybulle","17":"tag-national-basketball-association","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","20":"tag-toumani-camara","21":"tag-utah","22":"tag-utah-jazz","23":"tag-utahjazz"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116056542676069571","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598440","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=598440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}