{"id":410335,"date":"2026-01-16T06:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410335\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:32:07","slug":"trail-blazers-117-101-hawks-jan-15-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/410335\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 117-101 Hawks (Jan 15, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4914336\/shaedon-sharpe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> scored 24 points and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/por\/portland-trail-blazers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> overcame high-scoring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4683021\/deni-avdija\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deni Avdija<\/a>&#8216;s absence to beat the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/atl\/atlanta-hawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Hawks<\/a> 117-101 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Avdija missed second straight game because of lower-back soreness He\u2019s averaging 26.1 points, 7.1 rebounds and 6.9 assists.<\/p>\n<p>              Portland took an 88-87 lead into the fourth quarter and pulled away. The Trail Blazers had lost two straight after winning five a row.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2991070\/jerami-grant\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jerami Grant<\/a> added 16 points and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/5099752\/rayan-rupert\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rayan Rupert<\/a> had 13. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3995\/jrue-holiday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jrue Holiday<\/a> scored 12 points in his third game back after missing 27 because of a right calf injury.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4431680\/onyeka-okongwu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Onyeka Okongwu<\/a> led Atlanta with 26 points. The Hawks were 1\/3 on a four-game trip. They have lost nine in a row in Portland since Feb. 13, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>              <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/2490149\/cj-mccollum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CJ McCollum<\/a> added 20 points in his third game with the Hawks since coming over from Washington in the trade that sent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4277905\/trae-young\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trae Young<\/a> to the Wizards. McCollum played his first 8 1\/2 seasons with Portland.<\/p>\n<p>              Atlanta&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/3102531\/kristaps-porzingis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kristaps Porzingis<\/a> missed his fourth straight game because of an Achilles problem.<\/p>\n<p>              Up next&#13;<\/p>\n<p>              Hawks: Host Boston on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              Trail Blazers: Host the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/lal\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>              &#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>              AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. &#8212; \u2014 Shaedon Sharpe scored 24 points and the Portland Trail Blazers overcame high-scoring Deni Avdija&#8216;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-410335","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\/410335","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=410335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}