{"id":171740,"date":"2026-03-23T06:36:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171740\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T06:36:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T06:36:40","slug":"brooklyn-plays-portland-looks-to-stop-road-losing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171740\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn plays Portland, looks to stop road losing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brooklyn Nets<\/a> (17-54, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (35-37, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

Portland, Oregon; Monday, 10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Trail Blazers -14.5; over\/under is 219.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: Brooklyn hits the road against Portland looking to stop its three-game road losing streak.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 18-16 on their home court. Portland ranks ninth in the Western Conference with 31.7 defensive rebounds per game led by Donovan Clingan<\/a> averaging 7.1.<\/p>\n

The Nets have gone 8-28 away from home. Brooklyn is the worst team in the Eastern Conference scoring averaging just 106.4 points per game while shooting 44.3%.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are shooting 45.1% from the field this season, 4.2 percentage points lower than the 49.3% the Nets allow to opponents. The Trail Blazers average 106.4 points per game, 10.8 fewer points than the 117.2 the Trail Blazers give up.<\/p>\n

The teams square off for the second time this season. The Trail Blazers won 114-95 in the last meeting on March 16. Deni Avdija<\/a> led the Trail Blazers with 18 points, and Chaney Johnson<\/a> led the Nets with 17 points.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Avdija is scoring 24.2 points per game with 7.0 rebounds and 6.8 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jerami Grant<\/a> is averaging 17.1 points and 3.3 rebounds while shooting 52.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Danny Wolf<\/a> is averaging 8.9 points for the Nets. Tyson Etienne<\/a> is averaging 1.7 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 6-4, averaging 114.1 points, 48.1 rebounds, 27.9 assists, 8.5 steals and 6.6 blocks per game while shooting 45.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.3 points per game.<\/p>\n

Nets: 2-8, averaging 103.8 points, 39.9 rebounds, 24.1 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 43.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.0 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Jerami Grant: day to day (calf), Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Vit Krejci: day to day (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

Nets: Noah Clowney: day to day (wrist), Danny Wolf: day to day (ankle), Egor Demin<\/a>: out for season (foot), Day’Ron Sharpe: out for season (thumb), Michael Porter<\/a> Jr.: out (hamstring), Nic Claxton<\/a>: day to day (rest).<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets (17-54, 13th in the Eastern Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (35-37, ninth in the Western Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,40438,7937,7067,70076,5235,54398,38388,4600,4568,9,24,4601,63,9133,19722],"class_list":["post-171740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-chaney-johnson","tag-danny-wolf","tag-deni-avdija","tag-donovan-clingan","tag-egor-demin","tag-event_preview","tag-jerami-grant","tag-michael-porter-jr","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nic-claxton","tag-nyc","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-tyson-etienne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}