Utah Jazz (20-46, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (31-35, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Keyonte George and the Utah Jazz take on Deni Avdija and the Portland Trail Blazers in Western Conference play.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 5-7 against division opponents. Portland is third in the Western Conference in rebounding with 45.7 rebounds. Donovan Clingan leads the Trail Blazers with 11.5 boards.<\/p>\n
The Jazz are 1-10 in division matchups. Utah leads the Western Conference with 29.5 assists. Isaiah Collier leads the Jazz with 7.2.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers average 115.1 points per game, 9.9 fewer points than the 125.0 the Jazz give up. The Jazz average 12.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 fewer makes per game than the Trail Blazers give up.<\/p>\n
The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Trail Blazers won the last meeting 135-119 on Feb. 13, with Jrue Holiday scoring 31 points in the victory.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Clingan is shooting 52.3% and averaging 11.8 points for the Trail Blazers. Jerami Grant is averaging 19.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
George is averaging 23.6 points and 6.1 assists for the Jazz. Brice Sensabaugh is averaging 16.1 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 108.4 points, 44.0 rebounds, 24.8 assists, 8.9 steals and 7.0 blocks per game while shooting 44.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.8 points per game.<\/p>\n
Jazz: 2-8, averaging 112.6 points, 42.3 rebounds, 26.2 assists, 10.4 steals and 4.4 blocks per game while shooting 44.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.1 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Jazz: Lauri Markkanen: out (ankle), Keyonte George: day to day (leg), Walker Kessler: out for season (shoulder), Jusuf Nurkic: out for season (nose), Jaren Jackson Jr.: out for season (knee), John Konchar: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Utah Jazz (20-46, 14th in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (31-35, 10th in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[84442,1297,7,601,6,446,687,471,3967,66,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-654178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-84442","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-blazers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-basketball","14":"tag-portland","15":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","16":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116215455434694216","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654178","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=654178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}