{"id":675450,"date":"2026-03-24T00:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675450\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T00:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T00:21:35","slug":"avdija-clingan-nominated-for-nba-western-conference-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/675450\/","title":{"rendered":"Avdija, Clingan Nominated for NBA Western Conference Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Avdija and Clingan led the Blazers to a 3-1 record during the week. Avdija returned to his All-Star level play, looking like his pre-injury self while averaging 24.5 points, 7.8 rebounds and 7.3 assists. He shot just 39.1% from the field and 27.1% from behind the three-point arc, but made up for it by converting 80.9% of his 11.8 free throw attempts per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Clingan contributed 20.3 points per game, including a career-high 28 points in a win over Indiana on March 18th. Over the course of the four games, he made 8-17 three-pointers. He also grabbed 12.3 rebounds per game, including 5.0 on the offensive end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Neither Avdija or Clingan could keep pace with Luka Doncic, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/nba-players-week-luka-doncic-lamelo-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">won the award for the fourth time this season<\/a> after averaging an absurd 42.3 points per game while also grabbing 6.8 rebounds and dishing out 6.3 assists. Doncic led the red-hot Los Angeles Lakers to a 4-0 record during the week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Avdija and Clingan were in good company. Other nominees included Ayo Dosunmu and Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Amen Thompson of the Houston Rockets and Victor Wembanyama of the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">In the Eastern Conference, LaMelo Ball of the Charlotte Hornets won the award, leading his team to a 3-0 record. He averaged 26.3 points, 7.3 assists and 5.0 rebounds. Other Eastern Conference nominees were Nickeil Alexander-Walker of the Atlanta Hawks, Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics, Jalen Duren of the Detroit Pistons, James Harden and Evan Mobley of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and Karl-Anthony Towns of the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Avdija and Clingan led the Blazers to a 3-1 record during the week. Avdija returned to his All-Star&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-675450","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-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116281297217835927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675450","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=675450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}