—– Jerami Grant scored a game-high 27 points and Toumani Camara added 16 points and five rebounds as the Portland Trail Blazers begin their five-game road trip with a 121-112 victory over the Chicago Bulls Thursday night at United Center in Chicago.<\/p>\n
Without Donovan Clingan and Deni Avdija in the lineup, Jerami Grant led Portland to victory over Chicago on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Grant finished with a game-high 27 points, Toumani Camara added 16 points and five rebounds, and Robert Williams III recorded a double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds.<\/p>\n
Portland (29-31) used a 25-12 run over the final 6:34 of the first half to build a six-point halftime lead. Chicago (24-36) opened the third quarter on a 9-2 run to retake the lead, but Portland used an 18-11 run to take a 93-86 into the fourth. <\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers opened the final quarter on a 10-4 run to push their lead to double-digits. The Blazers extended their lead to 15 but the Bulls responded with a 15-3 run to make it a three-point game with 3:37 to play.<\/p>\n
Portland responded with five-straight points to push their lead back to eight with 1:27 to play. Holiday put the game away with a jumper with 52.1 seconds to play.<\/p>\n
Portland played without Donovan Clingan (Illness), Shaedon Sharpe (Left Leg), and Deni Avdija (Lower Back).<\/p>\n
Up Next- The Trail Blazers will travel to Charlotte to meet the Hornets Saturday morning. The game is scheduled to tip off at 10:00 AM.<\/p>\n
Chad’s Take- Portland took advantage of a great opportunity and got the five-game road trip off to a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"—– Jerami Grant scored a game-high 27 points and Toumani Camara added 16 points and five rebounds as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,7008,601,52956,329,1585,3891,965,2038,7212,112,82534,7211,23683,6,687,471,3967,10322,13399,4425,12018,15840,7140,1617,6277,10834,7477,574,52955],"class_list":["post-628614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blake-wesley","tag-blazers","tag-chad-doing","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-collin-sexton","tag-isaac-okoro","tag-josh-giddey","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-kris-murray","tag-lillard","tag-matas-buzellis","tag-matisse-thybulle","tag-mccollum","tag-nba","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-rip-city","tag-robert-williams-iii","tag-scoot-henderson","tag-sidy-cissoko","tag-tiago-splitter","tag-toumani-camara","tag-trail-blazers","tag-tre-jones","tag-united-center","tag-vit-krejci","tag-western-conference","tag-wheels"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116143750076729982","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628614","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=628614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}