{"id":714271,"date":"2026-04-19T23:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714271\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T23:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T23:48:21","slug":"1st-half-discussion-portland-trail-blazers-v-san-antonio-spurs-game-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/714271\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Half Discussion: Portland Trail Blazers v. San Antonio Spurs Game 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The wait is over, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> will be playing their first NBA Playoff game in five years as they take on the San Antonio Spurs in Texas for Game 1 of the first round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s chat about it here!<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No. 7 Portland Trail Blazers at No. 2 San Antonio Spurs | Sun. April 19 | 6 pm Pacific | Series 0-0<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">How to watch via antenna or cable: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc.com\/watch\/nba\/trail-blazers-vs-warriors\/12011037\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Trail Blazers Injuries: Damian Lillard (Out).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Spurs injuries: Jordan McLaughlin (Out).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Kit: The Blazers will take the floor in their white <a href=\"https:\/\/lockervision.nba.com\/team\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Association Edition<\/a> jerseys. San Antonio will wear its black City Edition unis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Regular Season Stat Leaders:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/blazers\/leaders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trail Blazers:<\/a> Points, Avdija (24.2 per game). Rebounds, Clingan (11.6). Assists, Avdija (6.7). Steals, Thybulle (2). Blocks, Clingan (1.7).<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/spurs\/leaders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spurs:<\/a> Points, Wembanyama (25 per game). Rebounds, Wembanyama (11.5). Assists, Castle (7.4). Steals, Fox (1.2). Blocks, Wembanyama (3.1).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Regular Season Tale of the Tape<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/teams\/advanced?CF=MIN*GE*15&amp;dir=A&amp;sort=DEF_RATING\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trail Blazers:<\/a> Offensive rating: 113.1 (21st place) Defensive rating: 113.5 (13th place)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/stats\/teams\/advanced?CF=MIN*GE*15&amp;dir=A&amp;sort=DEF_RATING\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spurs:<\/a> Offensive rating: 118.7 (3rd place) Defensive rating: 110.4 (3rd place)<\/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 Playoffs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wait is over, and the Portland Trail Blazers will be playing their first NBA Playoff game in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":714272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3797],"tags":[7,37790,6,63976,969,474,4075,4074,534],"class_list":{"0":"post-714271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio-spurs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-portland-trail-blazers-discussion","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","14":"tag-sanantonio","15":"tag-sanantoniospurs","16":"tag-spurs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116434049643323886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714271","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=714271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/714272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}