Portland Trail Blazers (8-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (14-7, third in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Toronto; Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Toronto will try to keep its seven-game home win streak intact when the Raptors play Portland.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 7-2 on their home court. Toronto averages 117.6 points and has outscored opponents by 4.7 points per game.<\/p>\n
The Trail Blazers are 5-6 in road games. Portland is seventh in the Western Conference scoring 118.3 points per game and is shooting 44.3%.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are shooting 49.0% from the field this season, 0.8 percentage points higher than the 48.2% the Trail Blazers allow to opponents. The Trail Blazers score 5.4 more points per game (118.3) than the Raptors give up (112.9).<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Brandon Ingram is shooting 47.4% and averaging 21.5 points for the Raptors. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 19.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Jerami Grant is scoring 19.1 points per game and averaging 3.5 rebounds for the Trail Blazers. Deni Avdija is averaging 31.0 points and 19.0 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Raptors: 8-2, averaging 115.7 points, 43.4 rebounds, 29.7 assists, 9.6 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 49.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 109.1 points per game.<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: 3-7, averaging 115.9 points, 48.5 rebounds, 23.7 assists, 6.9 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 123.0 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Raptors: RJ Barrett: out (knee), Jakob Poeltl: out (injury management).<\/p>\n
Trail Blazers: Donovan Clingan: day to day (illness), Scoot Henderson: out (hamstring), Matisse Thybulle: out (thumb), Jrue Holiday: out (calf), Blake Wesley: out (foot), 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 (8-12, 10th in the Western Conference) vs. Toronto Raptors (14-7, third in the Eastern Conference)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[165382,966,355,1063,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-323783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-165382","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-basketball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323783","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=323783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}