{"id":415933,"date":"2025-11-30T22:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T22:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T22:15:17","slug":"thunder-vs-trail-blazers-okc-seeks-second-win-over-portland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/415933\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder vs. Trail Blazers: OKC seeks second win over Portland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            OKLAHOMA CITY &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander and the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/oklahoma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oklahoma<\/a> City Thunder are back in action on Sunday, this time on a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/west\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West<\/a> Coast road trip to Portland to face the Trail <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/blazers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blazers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Coming off a Friday night <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/nba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA<\/a> Cup win over the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/phoenix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix<\/a> Suns in which <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/sga\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SGA<\/a> scored 37 points and clinched a spot in the knockout round, now <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/okc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OKC<\/a> returns to where it lost its only game on the season so far. <\/p>\n<p>While All-Star <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/jalen-williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jalen Williams<\/a> returned from injury on Friday, the Thunder lost center <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/isaiah-hartenstein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isaiah Hartenstein<\/a> for the next 10-14 days due to a soleus strain, according to the team. <\/p>\n<p>So far this season, iHart has averaged 12.2 points, 10.7 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.3 steals. Expect to see more of fan-favorite Jaylin (J-Will) <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/williams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams<\/a> and Kenrich Williams, who was out for the start of the season and made his debut last week against the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/timberwolves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Timberwolves<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>This is the third time this year the teams have matched up already, with the Thunder winning 122-95 on Nov. 24 in OKC. Portland held off a late comeback by the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/thunder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thunder<\/a> and prevailed in the first matchup on Nov. 5, 121-119.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, Portland will be without several key contributors. Those include Scoot Henderson, Jrue Holiday, Matisse Thybulle and Donovan Clingan. Damian Lillard remains out with a torn achilles. <\/p>\n<p>Expect to see Deni Avdija (averaging 25.2 PPG, 6.4 RBG and 5.5 APG) and Jerami Grant (averaging 13 PPG the last 10 games) leading the way for <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/portland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Portland<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n    <b>Here\u2019s how to watch the Thunder vs the Blazers:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Date: Sunday, Nov. 30<br \/>Time: 5 p.m. CST<br \/>Where: Moda <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newson6.com\/entity\/center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center<\/a><br \/>TV: FanDuel Sports Network<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">From OKC \ud83d\udc47<\/p>\n<p>Thunder Injury Update: Isaiah Hartenstein has sustained a right soleus strain and will be re-evaluated in 10-14 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Steve McGehee (@SteveMcGehee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveMcGehee\/status\/1994936200780812506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November 30, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY &#8211; Gilgeous-Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder are back in action on Sunday, this time on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":415934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1260,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-415933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115640960652145974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415933","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=415933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}