{"id":649635,"date":"2026-03-09T22:21:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/649635\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:21:30","slug":"trail-blazers-131-111-pacers-mar-8-2026-game-recap-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/649635\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 131-111 Pacers (Mar 8, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Scoot Henderson<\/a> scored a season-high 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting and the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> beat the skidding Indiana Pacers<\/a> 131-111 on Sunday night. <\/p>\n

Jerami Grant<\/a> and Jrue Holiday<\/a> added 21 points apiece for the Blazers, who handed Indiana its ninth straight defeat. Henderson also had six assists with no turnovers.<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija<\/a>, who leads Portland in scoring (24.4 points per game) and assists (6.6), returned from a six-game absence caused by a lower back injury. He finished with 18 points and eight assists.<\/p>\n

Indiana has dropped its past six games by an average of 20 points. This marks the team’s third losing streak of at least eight games this season. <\/p>\n

Pascal Siakam<\/a> led the Pacers with 22 points and Jay Huff<\/a> had 16 points and five blocks. Andrew Nembhard<\/a> added 14 points and nine assists, and Jarace Walker<\/a> also scored 14. <\/p>\n

Huff has an NBA-leading 39 games this season with at least two blocks, two more than San Antonio center Victor Wenbanyama, who had four in a 145-120<\/a> win over Houston earlier Sunday and leads the NBA in blocks. <\/p>\n

Robert Williams III<\/a> had his streak of 18 consecutive games with at least one block snapped. It had been the longest active streak in the league.<\/p>\n

Henderson scored or assisted on 15 points in a 25-7 run over the final 5 1\/2 minutes of the second quarter to help the Blazers take a 69-52 lead into halftime. The Pacers were 2-of-11 shooting with three turnovers during that stretch. <\/p>\n

Henderson had 19 points and five assists while going 7 for 9 from the field, including 2 of 4 from 3-point range, before the break. Grant added 14 points, Holiday had 11 and Avdija scored 10. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Pacers: Wrap up a four-game trip Tuesday at Sacramento. <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Host the Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. — \u2014 Scoot Henderson scored a season-high 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting and the Portland Trail…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-649635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116201553019912077","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649635","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=649635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}