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Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> (41-39, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (40-40, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Portland, Oregon; Friday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles visits Portland looking to prolong its four-game road winning streak.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 27-23 in Western Conference games. Portland is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 115.4 points while shooting 45.3% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Clippers are 24-26 against Western Conference opponents. Los Angeles is last in the league recording 23.8 assists per game led by Kawhi Leonard<\/a> averaging 3.6.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers score 115.4 points per game, 2.8 more points than the 112.6 the Clippers give up. The Clippers average 12.4 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.2 fewer makes per game than the Trail Blazers allow.<\/p>\n

The teams meet for the fourth time this season. The Trail Blazers won 114-104 in the last matchup on April 1. Jrue Holiday<\/a> led the Trail Blazers with 30 points, and Leonard led the Clippers with 23 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Deni Avdija<\/a> is scoring 24.0 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Toumani Camara<\/a> is averaging 18.6 points and 4.6 rebounds while shooting 54.8% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Leonard is averaging 28 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals for the Clippers. Brook Lopez<\/a> is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 6-4, averaging 116.5 points, 46.7 rebounds, 25.8 assists, 8.6 steals and 6.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 107.7 points per game.<\/p>\n

Clippers: 7-3, averaging 119.4 points, 40.5 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 10.0 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.9 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Jerami Grant<\/a>: out (calf), Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Vit Krejci: out (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

Clippers: Darius Garland<\/a>: out (toe), Isaiah Jackson: out (ankle), Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a>: out for season (foot), Bradley Beal<\/a>: out for season (hip).<\/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":"Los Angeles Clippers (41-39, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (40-40, ninth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,3086,369,559,791,980,78812,5673,2038,529,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,1407,6,471,7140,10948],"class_list":{"0":"post-706429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-clippers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bradley-beal","10":"tag-brook-lopez","11":"tag-clippers","12":"tag-darius-garland","13":"tag-deni-avdija","14":"tag-event_preview","15":"tag-jerami-grant","16":"tag-jrue-holiday","17":"tag-kawhi-leonard","18":"tag-la","19":"tag-la-clippers","20":"tag-laclippers","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-losangelesclippers","25":"tag-national-basketball-association","26":"tag-nba","27":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","28":"tag-toumani-camara","29":"tag-yanic-konan-niederhauser"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706429","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=706429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706429\/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=706429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}