{"id":684140,"date":"2026-03-28T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/684140\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T13:55:53","slug":"jerami-grant-leaves-game-with-calf-injury-blazers-coach-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/684140\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerami Grant Leaves Game with Calf Injury, Blazers Coach Concerned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland Trail Blazers forward Jerami Grant exited Portland\u2019s game with the Dallas Mavericks tonight with an undetermined calf injury. Grant played 29 minutes, leaving in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After the game, Trail Blazers Head Coach Tiago Splitter evidenced grave concern over Grant. <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cbergin.bsky.social\/post\/3mi3t42o6bs2f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Per Blazer\u2019s Edge media member Conor Bergin<\/a>, Splitter said Grant felt a \u201cpop\u201d in his calf. The coach indicated that his level of concern was \u201c100%\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Grant has appeared in 56 games for the Blazers this season, averaging 18.6 points in 29.8 minutes per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers have 7 games remaining in their regular season schedule before they will line up for the NBA Play-In Tournament to determine whether they become a part of the 2026 NBA Playoffs bracket. Losing Grant would be a major blow to their postseason chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">We will update this story as news becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers forward Jerami Grant exited Portland\u2019s game with the Dallas Mavericks tonight with an undetermined calf&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684141,"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-684140","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\/116307151015482903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684140","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=684140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}