{"id":494458,"date":"2026-02-23T16:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T16:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:47:08","slug":"clingan-scores-23-points-to-lead-trail-blazers-past-short-handed-suns-92-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494458\/","title":{"rendered":"Clingan scores 23 points to lead Trail Blazers past short-handed Suns 92-77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Donovan Clingan had 23 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots to lead the Portland Trail Blazers past the short-handed Phoenix Suns, 92-77 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Jerami Grant also scored 23 points on 9-of-13 shooting. The Trail Blazers bounced back from an ugly 157-103 loss to the Denver Nuggets on Friday and have won five of their past seven.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ZWCDUQ3KORHQ7F6CPZVUYVGJC4.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson (00) drives past Phoenix Suns forward Royce O'Neale during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, in Phoenix.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4221 \/ 2814;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers guard Scoot Henderson (00) drives past Phoenix Suns forward Royce O&#8217;Neale during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Sunday, Feb. 22, 2026, in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Rick Scuteri \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland built a 20-point lead by late in the third quarter and settled for a 71-57 advantage heading into the fourth. Collin Gillespie hit two 3-pointers to cut it to 80-69 with 7:36 left but Grant responded with a 3 to turn back the rally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Gillespie led Phoenix with 18 points, and Jalen Green had 13. Coming off a 113-110 double-overtime win over Orlando at home Saturday, the Suns shot just 36.9% from the field and the 77 points were a season low.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">It was a sloppy game for both teams \u2014 the Blazers had 21 turnovers and the Suns had 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland took a 47-40 lead into halftime after Phoenix shot just 2 of 19 (10.5%) from 3-point range. Grant led the Blazers with 12 points before the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland lost leading scorer Deni Avdija after just one minute after the All-Star aggravated a lower back injury. Avdija \u2014 who has been battling low back issues for several weeks \u2014 was listed as questionable coming into the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Suns were missing a big chunk of their regular rotation, including All-Star guard Devin Booker (hip strain), forward Dillon Brooks (fractured hand), guard Grayson Allen (knee\/ankle) and guard Jordan Goodwin (calf). <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The four players are averaging more than 70 points per game combined.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Host Minnesota on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Suns: Host Boston on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donovan Clingan had 23 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots to lead the Portland Trail Blazers past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,161170],"class_list":["post-494458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-trail-blazers-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}