{"id":523571,"date":"2026-03-09T01:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523571\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:16:11","slug":"trail-blazers-deni-avdija-returning-vs-pacers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/523571\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers&#8217; Deni Avdija returning vs. Pacers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/deni-avdija\/312f21c9-a061-43e2-9a22-65199131068e\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deni Avidja<\/a> will return to the lineup on Sunday against the Indiana Pacers after missing the last seven games with a back injury. <\/p>\n<p>He last played on Feb. 22 but exited after just one minute due to the ailment.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old is enjoying a breakout season, averaging a career-high 24.4 points on 46.3 per cent shooting. He&#8217;s also posting seven rebounds and 6.6 assists per game. <\/p>\n<p>Avidja has guided the Blazers to the final play-in spot in the West, and he could get them back to the post-season for the first time since 2020-21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deni Avidja will return to the lineup on Sunday against the Indiana Pacers after missing the last seven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-523571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523571","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=523571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}