Portland Trail Blazers (42-40, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
San Antonio; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
LINE: Spurs -11.5; over\/under is 220.5<\/p>\n
WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Spurs lead series 1-0<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs host the Portland Trail Blazers in the Western Conference first round with a 1-0 lead in the series. The Spurs won the last matchup 111-98 on Monday, led by 35 points from Victor Wembanyama. Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 30.<\/p>\n
The Spurs have gone 36-16 against Western Conference teams. San Antonio is fourth in the Western Conference with 28.1 assists per game led by Stephon Castle averaging 7.4.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 29-23 against Western Conference opponents. Portland is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 115.5 points per game and is shooting 45.3%.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are shooting 48.3% from the field this season, 1.2 percentage points higher than the 47.1% the Trail Blazers allow to opponents. The Trail Blazers average 115.5 points per game, 4.0 more than the 111.5 the Spurs allow to opponents.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Wembanyama is averaging 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. De\u2019Aaron Fox is averaging 16.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Avdija is scoring 24.2 points per game with 6.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jrue Holiday is averaging 17.7 points and 5.1 rebounds while shooting 41.3% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 8-2, averaging 123.0 points, 47.2 rebounds, 29.9 assists, 7.7 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 49.8% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 110.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: 6-4, averaging 114.7 points, 45.6 rebounds, 25.3 assists, 9.3 steals and 6.1 blocks per game while shooting 46.0% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 106.4 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Spurs: Jordan McLaughlin: day to day (ankle), David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers (42-40, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs (62-20, second in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86100,49066,96825,16024,86098,35768,96362,3080,6539,89148,39075,1015,11730,6391,82,84,83,1066,154,1504,27,1760,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-257635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-damian-lillard","9":"tag-data-skrive","10":"tag-david-jones-garcia","11":"tag-deaaron-fox","12":"tag-deni-avdija","13":"tag-jordan-mclaughlin","14":"tag-jrue-holiday","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-basketball","17":"tag-nba-playoffs","18":"tag-or-state-wire","19":"tag-oregon","20":"tag-portland","21":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","22":"tag-san-antonio","23":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","24":"tag-san-antonio-news","25":"tag-san-antonio-spurs","26":"tag-sports","27":"tag-stephon-castle","28":"tag-texas","29":"tag-tx-state-wire","30":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}