{"id":526991,"date":"2026-03-16T14:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526991\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:39:08","slug":"blazers-fall-to-short-handed-76ers-109-103-on-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/526991\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers fall to short-handed 76ers 109-103 on road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Quentin Grimes scored 14 of his season-high 31 points in the fourth quarter as the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers beat the Portland Trail Blazers 109-103 Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Sixers were playing without Joel Embiid, Tyrese Maxey and Kelly Oubre Jr. due to injuries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2IB63CB2RFB2HN3LRPGEMOX6EU.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers' Deni Avdija, right, goes up to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers' Vj Edgecombe during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, March 15, 2026, in Philadelphia.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2596 \/ 1731;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers&#8217; Deni Avdija, right, goes up to shoot against Philadelphia 76ers&#8217; Vj Edgecombe during the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, March 15, 2026, in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Matt Rourke \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Justin Edwards scored 21 points, and VJ Edgecombe had 18 points and a career-high 12 rebounds for the rookie\u2019s third double-double this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Deni Avdija led Portland with 25 points, and Jerami Grant added 20. But the Trail Blazers shot just 17 for 53 from 3-point range (32.7%). Donovan Clingan added 11 points and 15 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland led by one point at halftime, 54-53, before the Sixers stretched the lead to as many as 10 points in the third quarter, helped by nine points from Edwards in the period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Sixers took their largest lead of the game at 101-87 with 5:34 left, but Portland answered with a 10-0 run. An Edgecombe jumper with 1:53 to play and a steal and slam by Edwards with 1:20 left helped Philadelphia seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">76ers: Open a three-game trip in Denver on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Continue a five-game trip in Brooklyn Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">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":"Quentin Grimes scored 14 of his season-high 31 points in the fourth quarter as the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,146684],"class_list":["post-526991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-trail-blazers-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526991","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=526991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}