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Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (40-38, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets<\/a> (50-28, fourth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Denver; Monday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Denver faces the Portland Trail Blazers after Nikola Jokic<\/a> scored 40 points in the Denver Nuggets’ 136-134 overtime victory against the San Antonio Spurs.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets are 9-5 against opponents in the Northwest Division. Denver ranks third in the Western Conference with 28.8 assists per game led by Jokic averaging 10.9.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 7-8 against the rest of their division. Portland is 6-5 in games decided by less than 4 points.<\/p>\n

The Nuggets make 49.4% of their shots from the field this season, which is 2.4 percentage points higher than the Trail Blazers have allowed to their opponents (47.0%). The Trail Blazers average 115.4 points per game, 1.4 fewer than the 116.8 the Nuggets give up to opponents.<\/p>\n

The teams play for the fourth time this season. The Nuggets won the last matchup 128-112 on March 22. Jamal Murray<\/a> scored 22 points to help lead the Nuggets to the victory.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Jokic is scoring 27.9 points per game with 12.9 rebounds and 10.9 assists for the Nuggets. Murray is averaging 26.1 points and 4.9 rebounds while shooting 51.5% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija<\/a> is scoring 23.9 points per game with 7.0 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Toumani Camara<\/a> is averaging 17.3 points and 4.4 rebounds while shooting 56.1% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Nuggets: 9-1, averaging 127.5 points, 46.2 rebounds, 33.2 assists, 5.4 steals and 3.3 blocks per game while shooting 50.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.9 points per game.<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: 8-2, averaging 117.3 points, 48.1 rebounds, 26.5 assists, 8.1 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 104.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Nuggets: Zeke Nnaji: day to day (hip), Peyton Watson<\/a>: out (hamstring), Spencer Jones<\/a>: day to day (hamstring).<\/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

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (40-38, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Denver Nuggets (50-28, fourth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,980,187,78812,762,1407,6,253,1146,687,471,3967,26517,7140,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-699308","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-deni-avdija","11":"tag-denver-nuggets","12":"tag-event_preview","13":"tag-jamal-murray","14":"tag-national-basketball-association","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nikola-jokic","17":"tag-peyton-watson","18":"tag-portland","19":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","20":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","21":"tag-spencer-jones","22":"tag-toumani-camara","23":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116351267863453724","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699308","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=699308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}