{"id":550375,"date":"2026-03-21T03:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550375\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:30:10","slug":"jerami-grants-late-3-lifts-portland-trail-blazers-past-minnesota-timberwolves-for-third-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550375\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerami Grant\u2019s late 3 lifts Portland Trail Blazers past Minnesota Timberwolves for third straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Jerami Grant<\/a> made a 3-pointer with 22.2 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> escaped with a 108-104 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

After a timeout by the Trail Blazers, Grant took an inbound pass from Jrue Holiday<\/a> and made his fourth 3 of the night from the right corner. Grant grabbed a defensive rebound at the other end and made two free throws to finish with 26 points in Portland\u2019s third straight win.<\/p>\n

Donovan Clingan<\/a> scored 21 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for his sixth straight double-double. Deni Avdija<\/a> added 25 points and eight rebounds for the Trail Blazers, who moved into eighth place in the Western Conference. Holiday had 12 points and 12 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Rudy Gobert<\/a> led short-handed Minnesota with 18 points and 15 rebounds. Ayo Dosunmu<\/a> added 17 points and tied a career high with 10 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Julius Randle<\/a> added 19 points for the Timberwolves, but they lost for the first time in three games without All-Star guard Anthony Edwards<\/a>, who remains out with right knee inflammation. Center Naz Reid<\/a>, a top bench player, missed his second straight game with a right knee sprain.<\/p>\n

Donte DiVincenzo<\/a> missed a driving layup with 11.3 seconds to play that would have tied it. Gobert missed twice on tips before Grant grabbed his fifth rebound.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers led by 18 with 2 minutes left in first half, but three 3-pointers by the Timberwolves, including two by Bones Hyland<\/a>, were part of an 11-2 run before intermission to get within single digits.<\/p>\n

A fast-break layup by DiVincenzo capped an 18-7 run by Minnesota to tie it at 79 midway through the third quarter.<\/p>\n

Portland played its third straight game without forward Vit Krejci<\/a> (left calf contusion).<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Finish a five-game road trip Sunday at Denver.<\/p>\n

Timberwolves: Play at Boston on Sunday.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Mike Cook, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MINNEAPOLIS (AP) \u2014 Jerami Grant made a 3-pointer with 22.2 seconds left and the Portland Trail Blazers escaped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550376,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-550375","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\/550375","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=550375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}