{"id":267947,"date":"2026-04-27T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267947\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:13:08","slug":"san-antonio-tries-to-secure-series-in-game-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267947\/","title":{"rendered":"San Antonio tries to secure series in game 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (42-40, eighth in the Western Conference) vs. San Antonio Spurs<\/a> (62-20, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n

San Antonio; Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

LINE: Spurs -12.5; over\/under is 215.5<\/p>\n

WESTERN CONFERENCE FIRST ROUND: Spurs lead series 3-1<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs look to clinch the Western Conference first round over the Portland Trail Blazers in game five. The Spurs defeated the Trail Blazers 114-93 in the last meeting on Sunday. De’Aaron Fox<\/a> led the Spurs with 28 points, and Deni Avdija<\/a> led the Trail Blazers with 26.<\/p>\n

The Spurs are 36-16 in Western Conference games. San Antonio is third in the league averaging 119.8 points and is shooting 48.3% from the field.<\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers are 29-23 against Western Conference opponents. Portland has a 23-18 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/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: Victor Wembanyama<\/a> is averaging 25 points, 11.5 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 3.1 blocks for the Spurs. Fox is averaging 19.6 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Avdija is averaging 24.2 points, 6.9 rebounds and 6.7 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jrue Holiday is averaging 19.5 points, 5.8 rebounds and 6.4 assists over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Spurs: 7-3, averaging 118.4 points, 46.3 rebounds, 27.1 assists, 7.9 steals and 5.8 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: 5-5, averaging 110.8 points, 43.2 rebounds, 23.8 assists, 8.7 steals and 5.3 blocks per game while shooting 44.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 111.4 points.<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Spurs: David Jones Garcia: out for season (ankle).<\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/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":4290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16024,86098,64550,16585,6391,82,84,83,1066,509],"class_list":["post-267947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-deaaron-fox","tag-deni-avdija","tag-event_preview","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-antonio-spurs","tag-victor-wembanyama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947","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=267947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}