San Antonio Spurs (11-5, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (7-10, ninth in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Wednesday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: The San Antonio Spurs travel to face the San Antonio Spurs in an NBA Cup in-season tournament group play matchup.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 7-7 in Western Conference games. Portland is eighth in the league with 45.6 rebounds led by Donovan Clingan averaging 9.9.<\/p>\n
The Spurs are 6-5 in Western Conference play. San Antonio has a 0-2 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.<\/p>\n
The 119.3 points per game the Trail Blazers average are 7.1 more points than the Spurs give up (112.2). The Spurs are shooting 49.4% from the field, 0.7% higher than the 48.7% the Trail Blazers\u2019 opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Deni Avdija is averaging 25.1 points, 6.6 rebounds and 5.4 assists for the Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n
Devin Vassell is scoring 13.9 points per game and averaging 3.6 rebounds for the Spurs. Keldon Johnson is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 2-7, averaging 118.5 points, 48.3 rebounds, 24.5 assists, 7.1 steals and 4.7 blocks per game while shooting 44.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 124.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Spurs: 6-4, averaging 118.3 points, 44.0 rebounds, 28.3 assists, 8.2 steals and 4.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 114.6 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: out (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), Shaedon Sharpe: day to day (calf), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n
Spurs: Dylan Harper: out (calf), Jordan McLaughlin: day to day (hamstring), Victor Wembanyama: out (calf), Stephon Castle: out (hip).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Antonio Spurs (11-5, fifth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (7-10, ninth in the Western…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-315847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-nba","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}