Portland is looking to extend its three-game home win streak with a victory over Denver. Friday’s game is the second meeting this season between the two teams….<\/p>\n
Denver Nuggets (35-21, fourth in the Western Conference) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (27-29, 10th in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon; Friday, 10 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> Nuggets -2.5; over\/under is 238.5<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: Portland hosts Denver trying to prolong its three-game home winning streak.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers are 21-16 in Western Conference games. Portland ranks second in the NBA with 14.3 offensive rebounds per game led by Donovan Clingan averaging 4.7 offensive boards.<\/p>\n The Nuggets are 20-10 in Western Conference play. Denver is 6-9 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n The Trail Blazers average 116.3 points per game, equal to what the Nuggets give up. The Nuggets are shooting 49.4% from the field, 1.9% higher than the 47.5% the Trail Blazers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n The teams play for the second time this season. The Trail Blazers won the last matchup 109-107 on Nov. 1. Deni Avdija scored 23 points to help lead the Trail Blazers to the victory.<\/p>\n TOP PERFORMERS: Avdija is averaging 25.2 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.6 assists for the Trail Blazers. Jerami Grant is averaging 17.3 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n Jamal Murray is averaging 25.6 points and 7.6 assists for the Nuggets. Nikola Jokic is averaging 19.3 points and 10.8 rebounds while shooting 49.2% over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n LAST 10 GAMES: Trail Blazers: 4-6, averaging 117.4 points, 49.3 rebounds, 26.0 assists, 7.6 steals and 5.6 blocks per game while shooting 46.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.4 points per game.<\/p>\n Nuggets: 4-6, averaging 118.4 points, 44.4 rebounds, 27.4 assists, 6.7 steals and 4.5 blocks per game while shooting 48.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 117.0 points.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Trail Blazers: Matisse Thybulle: out (knee), Robert Williams III: day to day (knee), Shaedon Sharpe: out (calf), Kris Murray: day to day (back), Damian Lillard: out for season (achilles).<\/p>\n Nuggets: Tamar Bates: out (foot), Aaron Gordon: out (hamstring), Peyton Watson: out (hamstring).<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n Copyright 2025 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Portland is looking to extend its three-game home win streak with a victory over Denver. Friday’s game is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-479573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479573","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=479573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}