—– Donovan Clingan and Jerami Grant lead the Trail Blazers past the Suns in Phoenix.<\/p>\n
Donovan Clingan finished with 23 points, 12 rebounds, and four blocked shots and Jerami Grant added 23 points on 9-of-13 shooting as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Phoenix Suns 92-77 Sunday evening at Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n
Both the Suns and Trail Blazers struggled on offense in the first half. Phoenix (33-25) led 27-26 midway thru the second but the two teams were a combined 3-of-29 from beyond-the-arc and each team was 11-of-33 shooting.<\/p>\n
Portland (28-30) took control of the game with a 19-9 run over the final 5:53 of the first half and took a 47-40 lead into the locker room.<\/p>\n
The Blazers would extend their lead to 20 late in the third and the Suns trailed by double-digits the rest of the way.<\/p>\n
Deni Avdija exited the game just one-minute into the first quarter with a back injury and did not return.<\/p>\n
Toumani Camara finished with 12 points and 11 rebounds and Scoot Henderson added 11 points and six assists off the bench.<\/p>\n
Up Next- The Trail Blazers return home to meet the Minnesota Timberwolves Tuesday night at Moda Center. The game is scheduled to tip off at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Chad’s Take- Sometimes you have to win “ugly.” The Blazers did that on Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"—– Donovan Clingan and Jerami Grant lead the Trail Blazers past the Suns in Phoenix. Donovan Clingan finished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[4040,7,601,52956,4216,980,974,861,5673,2038,13442,1011,1203,56639,6,231,9,53849,687,471,3967,10322,13399,7780,4909,4425,10607,12018,15840,1617,53848,7477,574],"class_list":["post-619982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-amir-coffey","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-chad-doing","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-deni-avdija","tag-donovan-clingan","tag-jalen-green","tag-jerami-grant","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-mariners","tag-mark-williams","tag-mlb","tag-mortgage-matchup-center","tag-nba","tag-ncaa","tag-nfl","tag-pac12","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-rip-city","tag-robert-williams-iii","tag-royce-oneale","tag-ryan-dunn","tag-scoot-henderson","tag-seahawks","tag-sidy-cissoko","tag-tiago-splitter","tag-trail-blazers","tag-travis-demers","tag-vit-krejci","tag-western-conference"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619982","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=619982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}