{"id":709323,"date":"2026-04-13T00:45:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T00:45:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T00:45:31","slug":"first-half-discussion-portland-trail-blazers-vs-sacramento-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/709323\/","title":{"rendered":"First Half Discussion: Portland Trail Blazers vs. Sacramento Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">UPDATE: Blazers forward Vit Krejci and wing Matisse Thybulle are both AVAILABLE to play tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> hold their play-in seeding in their own hands: win tonight at 5:30pm Pacific against the Sacramento Kings, and they\u2019re in the 7\/8 Play-In game. Lose tonight, and they need the Los Angeles Clippers to also lose, otherwise Portland will be in the 9\/10 Play-In game instead (and will need to win two games in a row to get to the Playoffs). Let\u2019s chat about the game here!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Portland Trail Blazers (41-40) vs Sacramento Kings (22-59) &#8211; Sun Apr. 12 &#8211; 5:30 pm Pacific<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How to watch via streaming: BlazerVision in Oregon and Washington; League Pass everywhere else<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How to listen: Rip City Radio 620AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trail Blazers Injuries: Jerami Grant, Damian Lillard (out).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kings Injuries: DeMar DeRozan, Drew Eubanks, De\u2019Andre Hunter, Zach LaVine, Malik Monk, Keegan Murray, Domantas Sabonis, Isaiah Stevens, Russell Westbrook (out).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here\u2019s what we ask in our discussion threads:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Thanks for being a part of the discussion. Enjoy the game and join us after for analysis and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATE: Blazers forward Vit Krejci and wing Matisse Thybulle are both AVAILABLE to play tonight. The Portland Trail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37790,6,687,471,63976,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-709323","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-blazers-gameday-coverage","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","15":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","16":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116394637620827245","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709323","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=709323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}