San Antonio Spurs (11-5, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (7-10, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs travel to face the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 7-7 in Western Conference games. Portland is eighth in the league with 45.6 rebounds led by Donovan Clingan averaging 9.9.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 6-5 in Western Conference play. San Antonio has a 0-2 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The 119.3 points per game the Trail Blazers average are 7.1 more points than the Spurs give up (112.2). The Spurs are shooting 49.4% from the field, 0.7% higher than the 48.7% the Trail Blazers\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Deni Avdija is averaging 25.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists for the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
Devin Vassell is scoring 13.9 points per game and averaging 3.6 rebounds for the Spurs. Keldon Johnson is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 2-7, averaging 118.5 points, 48.3 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 6-4, averaging 118.3 points, 44.0 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: out (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Shaedon Sharpe: day to day (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Spurs: Dylan Harper: out (calf), Jordan McLaughlin: day to day (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama: out (calf), Stephon Castle: out (hip).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (11-5, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (7-10, ninth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-407316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-san-antonio","10":"tag-sanantonio","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-tx","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115619219666034086","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}