Portland Trail Blazers (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (33-24, seventh in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Phoenix; Sunday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Trail Blazers -3.5; over\/under is 223.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Phoenix hosts the Portland Trail Blazers after the Suns took down the Orlando Magic 113-110 in overtime.<\/p>\n The Suns have gone 22-17 against Western Conference opponents. Phoenix scores 113.3 points while outscoring opponents by 1.3 points per game.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers are 21-17 against Western Conference opponents. Portland is 12-14 in games decided by 10 points or more.<\/p>\n The Suns average 14.6 made 3-pointers per game this season, 1.4 more made shots on average than the 13.2 per game the Trail Blazers give up. The Trail Blazers average 14.5 made 3-pointers per game this season, 2.3 more made shots on average than the 12.2 per game the Suns allow.<\/p>\n The teams square off for the third time this season. The Suns won 130-125 in the last matchup on Feb. 4. Collin Gillespie led the Suns with 30 points, and Jerami Grant led the Trail Blazers with 23 points.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Gillespie is averaging 13.3 points and 4.8 assists for the Suns. Royce O\u2019Neale is averaging 2.9 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Deni Avdija is averaging 25 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists for the Trail Blazers. Grant is averaging 16 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Suns: 5-5, averaging 109.9 points, 45.0 rebounds, 24.4 assists, 9.1 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 43.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 113.9 points per game.<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 118.3 points, 48.3 rebounds, 26.8 assists, 7.3 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 46.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 125.9 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Suns: Cole Anthony: out (not injury related), Jordan Goodwin: day to day (calf), Devin Booker: out (hip), Dillon Brooks: out (hand), Haywood Highsmith: out (knee).<\/p>\n Trail Blazers: Deni Avdija: day to day (back), Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (27-30, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Phoenix Suns (33-24, seventh in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,2733,1587,11029,20733,21595,23229,221033,57186,7196,7190,89397,83097,58608,1260,6326,6065,212,3121,1589,1721,23077,3133,80688,179229,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-607807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-athlete-injuries","tag-az","tag-az-state-wire","tag-cole-anthony","tag-collin-gillespie","tag-damian-lillard","tag-data-skrive","tag-deni-avdija","tag-devin-booker","tag-dillon-brooks","tag-haywood-highsmith","tag-jerami-grant","tag-jordan-goodwin","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-or-state-wire","tag-oregon","tag-orlando-magic","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-suns","tag-portland","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-royce-oneale","tag-shaedon-sharpe","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607807","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=607807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}