Portland Trail Blazers (32-36, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (17-50, 13th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
New York; Monday, 7:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Trail Blazers -9.5; over\/under is 222.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn looks to break its three-game skid when the Nets take on Portland.<\/p>\n The Nets have gone 9-23 at home. Brooklyn ranks last in the Eastern Conference averaging only 106.7 points per game.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers are 14-20 on the road. Portland has a 6-5 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n The Nets are shooting 44.5% from the field this season, 2.9 percentage points lower than the 47.4% the Trail Blazers allow to opponents. The Trail Blazers average 115.1 points per game, 0.5 fewer than the 115.6 the Nets allow to opponents.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Nic Claxton is averaging 12 points, 7.1 rebounds and 3.9 assists for the Nets. Danny Wolf is averaging 12.2 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Deni Avdija is scoring 24.1 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jerami Grant is averaging 19.8 points and 3.4 rebounds while shooting 49.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Nets: 2-8, averaging 105.8 points, 39.4 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 7.2 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 45.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.0 points per game.<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 111.6 points, 45.5 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 9.3 steals and 7.5 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.7 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Nets: Noah Clowney: out (rest), Ben Saraf: day to day (calf), Egor Demin: out for season (foot), Day\u2019Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter Jr.: out (ankle), Terance Mann: out (achilles).<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (32-36, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Brooklyn Nets (17-50, 13th in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[2889,7,3519,601,670,247,125,1042,76733,2299,980,5673,562,6,446,9130,1136,7295,10001,3805,6912,2470,687,17593,471,3967,4426,66,7290,1617],"class_list":["post-660769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-basketball","tag-ben-saraf","tag-blazers","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-damian-lillard","tag-danny-wolf","tag-data-skrive","tag-dayron-sharpe","tag-deni-avdija","tag-jerami-grant","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nicolas-claxton","tag-noah-clowney","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-portland-pilots","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sports","tag-terance-mann","tag-trail-blazers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116237532113940086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660769","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=660769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}