{"id":691986,"date":"2026-04-01T14:19:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691986\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:19:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:19:02","slug":"trail-blazers-114-104-clippers-mar-31-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/691986\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 114-104 Clippers (Mar 31, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Deni Avdija<\/a> had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, Jrue Holiday<\/a> hit seven 3s and finished with 30 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> snapped the Los Angeles Clippers’ five-game win streak, 114-104 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

The Clippers (39-37) are eighth in the Western Conference, a half-game in front of the ninth-place Blazers (39-38). Los Angeles leads the season series \u2014 which wraps up April 10 in Portland \u2014 with the Blazers 2-1. <\/p>\n

Toumani Camara<\/a> scored 17 points and Scoot Henderson<\/a> added 15 for the Trail Blazers. <\/p>\n

Kawhi Leonard<\/a> led the Clippers with 23 points. Darius Garland<\/a> scored 20, Brook Lopez<\/a> 18, John Collins<\/a> added 17 and Jordan Miller<\/a> 16 points. <\/p>\n

Leonard has scored at least 20 points in 52 consecutive games, the second-longest active streak of its kind in the NBA (Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> has a 136 game streak). <\/p>\n

Matisse Thybulle<\/a> hit a 3-pointer that made it 31-29 with 1:06 left in the first quarter and the Blazers led the rest of the way. <\/p>\n

Garland made a bucket in the lane that trimmed the Clippers’ deficit to eight with 3:44 left in the third quarter but they got no closer. Henderson hit a step-back 3 at the buzzer to cap a 16-5 run that made it 91-74 going into the fourth. <\/p>\n

Portland had 18 offensive rebounds and 32 second-chance points. The Blazers went into the game leading the NBA in second-chance points (18.2 per game) and are second in offensive rebounds (14.1 per game). <\/p>\n

Avdija made 11 of 12 from the free-throw line and has 31 games this season with at least 10 free-throw attempts, second most in the NBA behind Luka Doncic<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Portland’s Jerami Grant<\/a> (calf) missed his second consecutive game. <\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Host New Orleans on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Clippers: Host San Antonio on Thursday. <\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES — \u2014 Deni Avdija had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, Jrue Holiday hit seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-691986","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116329890826239408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691986","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=691986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}