{"id":485699,"date":"2026-02-23T12:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T12:54:07","slug":"trail-blazers-92-77-suns-feb-22-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/485699\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers 92-77 Suns (Feb 22, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX — \u2014 Donovan Clingan<\/a> had 23 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots to lead the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> past the short-handed Phoenix Suns<\/a>, 92-77 on Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Jerami Grant<\/a> also scored 23 points on 9-of-13 shooting. The Trail Blazers bounced back from an ugly 157-103 loss to the Denver Nuggets<\/a> on Friday and have won five of their past seven.<\/p>\n

Portland built a 20-point lead by late in the third quarter and settled for a 71-57 advantage heading into the fourth. Collin Gillespie<\/a> hit two 3-pointers to cut it to 80-69 with 7:36 left but Grant responded with a 3 to turn back the rally.<\/p>\n

Gillespie led Phoenix with 18 points, and Jalen Green<\/a> had 13. Coming off a 113-110 double-overtime win over Orlando at home Saturday, the Suns shot just 36.9% from the field and the 77 points were a season low.<\/p>\n

It was a sloppy game for both teams \u2014 the Blazers had 21 turnovers and the Suns had 19.<\/p>\n

Portland took a 47-40 lead into halftime after Phoenix shot just 2 of 19 (10.5%) from 3-point range. Grant led the Blazers with 12 points before the break.<\/p>\n

Portland lost leading scorer Deni Avdija<\/a> after just one minute after the All-Star aggravated a lower back injury. Avdija \u2014 who has been battling low back issues for several weeks \u2014 was listed as questionable coming into the game.<\/p>\n

The Suns were missing a big chunk of their regular rotation, including All-Star guard Devin Booker<\/a> (hip strain), forward Dillon Brooks<\/a> (fractured hand), guard Grayson Allen<\/a> (knee\/ankle) and guard Jordan Goodwin<\/a> (calf). <\/p>\n

The four players are averaging more than 70 points per game combined.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: Host Minnesota on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Suns: Host Boston on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX — \u2014 Donovan Clingan had 23 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots to lead the Portland…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-485699","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\/485699","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=485699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}