{"id":434940,"date":"2026-01-24T18:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434940\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T18:19:10","slug":"short-handed-portland-trail-blazers-fall-to-toronto-raptors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/434940\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-Handed Portland Trail Blazers Fall to Toronto Raptors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Toronto Raptors tripped the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blazersedge.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> 110-98 at the Moda Center tonight, ending the home team\u2019s winning streak at four games. Sandro Mamukelashvili led the way for the visitors with 22 points, while Jrue Holiday and Shaedon Sharpe scored 21 apiece for the Blazers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It seems crazy to say this, but Deni Advija may have been the player of the game tonight even though his balky back kept him on the sidelines. As soon as he was ruled out, the dominant question became whether or not the Blazers would be able to compensate for the loss. Unfortunately, the answer was \u201cnot this time.\u201d It was not for lack of trying, though. Toumani Camara (16 points), Donovan Clingan (13 points and 16 rebounds) joined Shaedon and Jrue in a spirited effort that came up short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers normally dominate in the offensive rebounding category, and they had an edge of 14-10 in this one. Unfortunately, the Raptors got five of theirs in the last quarter alone to blunt a stout Blazer comeback effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Jerami Grant struggled to carry the extra weight of Deni\u2019s absence. Fighting his own return from injury and supposedly under a minutes restriction, he came up with 8 points on 2-8 shooting, 0-5 on threes, 4-6 on free throws, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 turnovers, 1 steal, and 1 block in his 26 minutes. Not the Jerami we are accustomed to seeing this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Also, the bench was lighter than usual this time out: Portland\u2019s reserves outscored Toronto\u2019s 24-23, but without Deni on the floor the need from the bench was a lot greater tonight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Blazers drop in on the Boston Celtics on Mon. Jan. 26 for a tussle starting at 5pm Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Raptors tripped the Portland Trail Blazers 110-98 at the Moda Center tonight, ending the home team\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,89844,134466,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-434940","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-blazers-gameday-coverage","12":"tag-instant-recaps","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}