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Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (42-40, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (62-20, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Sunday, 9 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Spurs -10.5; over\/under is 222.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Spurs host first series matchup<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs host the Portland Trail Blazers in game one of the Western Conference first round. San Antonio went 2-1 against Portland during the regular season. The Spurs won the last regular season meeting 112-101 on Thursday, April 9 led by 25 points from De’Aaron Fox, while Deni Avdija<\/a> scored 29 points for the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-16 against conference opponents. San Antonio leads the Western Conference with 35.6 defensive rebounds per game led by Victor Wembanyama<\/a> averaging 9.5.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 29-23 in Western Conference play. Portland is seventh in the league averaging 14.5 made 3-pointers per game while shooting 34.3% from downtown. Toumani Camara<\/a> leads the team averaging 2.7 makes while shooting 37.0% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

The Spurs average 119.8 points per game, 4.0 more points than the 115.8 the Trail Blazers allow. The Trail Blazers average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.5 more made shots on average than the 13.0 per game the Spurs allow.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Wembanyama is averaging 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. Keldon Johnson<\/a> is averaging 14.8 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Avdija is averaging 24.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Camara is averaging 18.4 points and 1.8 steals over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 8-2, averaging 124.2 points, 48.6 rebounds, 31.1 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.1 blocks per game while shooting 50.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.6 points per game.<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: 7-3, averaging 118.3 points, 46.3 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 9.4 steals and 6.7 blocks per game while shooting 47.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 105.2 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: Victor Wembanyama: day to day (ribcage), David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle), Luke Kornet: day to day (shoulder).<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: 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 (42-40, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,980,78812,2850,1407,6,12,471,474,7140,693],"class_list":{"0":"post-713032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-deni-avdija","10":"tag-event_preview","11":"tag-keldon-johnson","12":"tag-national-basketball-association","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-draft","15":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","16":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","17":"tag-toumani-camara","18":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116424710542665704","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713032","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=713032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713032\/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=713032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}