{"id":685036,"date":"2026-03-28T23:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T23:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T23:51:17","slug":"preview-wizards-visit-trail-blazers-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/685036\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Wizards visit Trail Blazers on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/teams\/washington-wizards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Wizards<\/a> are in the midst of a really bad stretch \u2014 they lost 17 (yes, one seven) games out of their last 18\u2026 But they did just win this past week \u2014 if you like that as a silver lining \u2014 but, it was against the lowly Utah Jazz\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When: Sunday, March 29 at 6 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Where:  Moda Center, Portland, OR<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wizards: Trae Young, Kyshawn George, Anthony Davis, D\u2019Angelo Russell, Cam Whitmore (Out)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trailblazers: Jerami Grant (Day-to-Day), Vit Krejci, Shaedon Sharpe, Damian Lillard (Out)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Always nice to see Deni \u2014 Since the Wizards gave away Deni Avdija for a pretty slim return, he has blossomed under European minded head coach Tiago Splitter, who understood Deni\u2019s ball-handling skills and drive potential better than any of his previous coaches. Always nice to see a former Wizard, and especially one who has become an All-Star. By the way, I did predict that back a few years!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Injuries\u2014 It\u2019s true that the Wizards traded a bunch of players and got a bunch of injured players in return. That partly explains their terrible stretch in the past month after the All-Star Break. Portland is also plagued with injuries, but it would still be a huge upset if the Wizards manage to even keep this one competitive for four quarters.<\/p>\n<p>Flashback: Blazers score 132 in D.C. in the Beal Era<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A million years ago, in the Bradley Beal Era\u2026 the Blazers came in smokin\u2019 hot to D.C. en route to a 132-121 rout of the Wizards. Here are the highlights, and nostalgia, with then and now Blazers guard Damian Lillard blazing hot:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Wizards are in the midst of a really bad stretch \u2014 they lost 17 (yes, one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617,53634],"class_list":{"0":"post-685036","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","15":"tag-washington-wizards-game-preview"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116309490572799952","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685036","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=685036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}