{"id":717687,"date":"2026-04-25T12:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717687\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T12:09:20","slug":"spurs-complete-comeback-over-trail-blazers-take-game-3-without-victor-wembanyama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/717687\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs Complete Comeback Over Trail Blazers, Take Game 3 Without Victor Wembanyama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers made clear their mission a day prior to tipoff. They wanted to be the most physical team in the gym.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who ever is the most physical,&#8221; Deni Avdija explained, &#8220;that team&#8217;s going to win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Coming off a Game 2 victory in which <a href=\"https:\/\/si.com\/nba\/spurs\/onsi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio Spurs <\/a>star Victor Wembanyama suffered a concussion, Portland rode a high it hoped to replicate Friday night, especially after learning the Frenchman, navigating the NBA&#8217;s mandated concussion protocol, was out.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t account for the young players hoping to fill the 7-foot-4 hole.<\/p>\n<p>Stephon Castle and Dylan Harper combined for 60 points in the Spurs&#8217; 120-108 victory over the Trail Blazers that secured a 2-1 series lead. They became the second duo in NBA history, age 21 or younger, to each score 25-plus points in the same playoff game, joining Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook during their time with the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were driving and kicking,&#8221; Trail Blazers coach Tiago Splitter said postgame. &#8220;They made shots. We tried to get to the rim, but we were not efficient. Not our best night.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. \u2014 The Portland Trail Blazers made clear their mission a day prior to tipoff. They wanted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":717688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-717687","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-nba","11":"tag-portland","12":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","13":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","14":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116465274914929819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717687","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=717687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}