—– Jrue Holiday scored a game-high 27 points and Deni Avdija added 26 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the New Orleans Pelicans 118-106 Thursday night at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Thursday the Rip City Rising ownership group was officially introduced to the City of Portland at a press conference held in the Rose Room at Moda Center. Tom Dundon and his group were received a big treat later in the evening with a Trail Blazers 118-106 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans.<\/p>\n
Jrue Holiday scored a game-high 27 points, Toumani Camara scored 23, and Deni Avdija added 26 points, eight rebounds, and seven assists.<\/p>\n
Portland (40-38) trailed by five-points at halftime but caught fire in the third quarter. The Trail Blazers used a 14-0 run to build a nine-point lead and led the rest of the game.<\/p>\n
New Orleans (25-52) pulled within three with 4:26 to play following a pair of free throws from Derik Queen but Portland closed the game on a 12-3 run to secure the win.<\/p>\n
With the win and the Los Angeles Clippers loss Thursday night to the San Antonio Spurs, the Trail Blazers hold a half-game lead on the Clippers for 8th in the Western Conference play-in standings.<\/p>\n
Up Next- The Trail Blazers travel to Denver to face the Nuggets on Monday night at Ball Arena. The game is scheduled to tip off at 6:00 PM.<\/p>\n
Chad’s Take- Solid effort following their biggest win of the year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"—– Jrue Holiday scored a game-high 27 points and Deni Avdija added 26 points, eight rebounds, and seven…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,52956,980,803,974,6513,983,2038,112,7211,23683,28814,6,470,687,471,3967,10322,13399,1020,4425,12018,7140,1617,6514,52955,814],"class_list":{"0":"post-699762","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-chad-doing","11":"tag-deni-avdija","12":"tag-derik-queen","13":"tag-donovan-clingan","14":"tag-herbert-jones","15":"tag-jeremiah-fears","16":"tag-jrue-holiday","17":"tag-lillard","18":"tag-matisse-thybulle","19":"tag-mccollum","20":"tag-moda-center","21":"tag-nba","22":"tag-new-orleans-pelicans","23":"tag-portland","24":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","25":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","26":"tag-rip-city","27":"tag-robert-williams-iii","28":"tag-saddiq-bey","29":"tag-scoot-henderson","30":"tag-sidy-cissoko","31":"tag-toumani-camara","32":"tag-trail-blazers","33":"tag-trey-murphy-iii","34":"tag-wheels","35":"tag-zion-williamson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116352807494047642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699762","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=699762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}