Portland Trail Blazers (38-38, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (39-36, eighth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Inglewood, California; Tuesday, 11 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles will attempt to extend its five-game win streak with a victory over Portland.<\/p>\n
The Clippers are 22-23 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles ranks last in the Western Conference recording 40.7 rebounds per game led by Kawhi Leonard averaging 6.3.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 25-21 in Western Conference play. Portland ranks second in the NBA with 14.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Donovan Clingan averaging 4.6.<\/p>\n
The Clippers\u2019 12.4 made 3-pointers per game this season are just 0.3 fewer made shots on average than the 12.7 per game the Trail Blazers allow. The Trail Blazers are shooting 45.3% from the field, 1.6% lower than the 46.9% the Clippers\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
The teams meet for the third time this season. The Clippers won 119-103 in the last matchup on Dec. 27. Brook Lopez led the Clippers with 31 points, and Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 29 points.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: John Collins is averaging 13.5 points and 5.2 rebounds for the Clippers. Leonard is averaging 22.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Toumani Camara is scoring 13.1 points per game and averaging 5.2 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Avdija is averaging 21.6 points and 6.8 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Clippers: 6-4, averaging 117.8 points, 40.1 rebounds, 25.0 assists, 10.7 steals and 6.5 blocks per game while shooting 50.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 112.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: 7-3, averaging 116.8 points, 48.6 rebounds, 27.6 assists, 8.4 steals and 7.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.5 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Clippers: Isaiah Jackson: day to day (ankle), Yanic Konan Niederhauser: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal: out for season (hip).<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: Jerami Grant: day to day (calf), Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Vit Krejci: day to day (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/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":"Portland Trail Blazers (38-38, ninth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (39-36, eighth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,3086,369,160,125,76733,980,2542,5673,6971,529,251,135,6,446,6912,2470,687,17593,471,3967,4426,66,7140,1617,7477],"class_list":["post-687543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-portland-trail-blazers","tag-basketball","tag-blazers","tag-bradley-beal","tag-brook-lopez","tag-california","tag-damian-lillard","tag-data-skrive","tag-deni-avdija","tag-isaiah-jackson","tag-jerami-grant","tag-john-collins","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-portland","tag-portland-pilots","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-portlandtrailblazers","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sports","tag-toumani-camara","tag-trail-blazers","tag-vit-krejci"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116316821619576208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687543","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=687543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687543\/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=687543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}