{"id":558275,"date":"2026-04-01T13:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558275\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T13:33:10","slug":"holiday-scores-30-avdija-adds-28-to-help-trail-blazers-beat-clippers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558275\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday scores 30, Avdija adds 28 to help Trail Blazers beat Clippers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/XW7D673UVJGMNHBC5LW426JYKE.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots the ball while being guarded by LA Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (2) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4820 \/ 3213;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots the ball while being guarded by LA Clippers forward Kawhi Leonard (2) during the first half of an NBA basketball game Tuesday, March 31, 2026, in Inglewood, Calif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Caroline Brehman \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Deni Avdija had 28 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, Jrue Holiday hit seven 3s and finished with 30 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers snapped the Los Angeles Clippers\u2019 five-game win streak, 114-104 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The Clippers (39-37) are eighth in the Western Conference, a half-game in front of the ninth-place Blazers (39-38). Los Angeles leads the season series \u2014 which wraps up April 10 in Portland \u2014 with the Blazers 2-1. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Toumani Camara scored 17 points and Scoot Henderson added 15 for the Trail Blazers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Kawhi Leonard led the Clippers with 23 points. Darius Garland scored 20, Brook Lopez 18, John Collins added 17 and Jordan Miller 16 points. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Leonard has scored at least 20 points in 52 consecutive games, the second-longest active streak of its kind in the NBA (Oklahoma City\u2019s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has a 136 game streak). <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Matisse Thybulle hit a 3-pointer that made it 31-29 with 1:06 left in the first quarter and the Blazers led the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Garland made a bucket in the lane that trimmed the Clippers\u2019 deficit to eight with 3:44 left in the third quarter but they got no closer. Henderson hit a step-back 3 at the buzzer to cap a 16-5 run that made it 91-74 going into the fourth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland had 18 offensive rebounds and 32 second-chance points. The Blazers went into the game leading the NBA in second-chance points (18.2 per game) and are second in offensive rebounds (14.1 per game). <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Avdija made 11 of 12 from the free-throw line and has 31 games this season with at least 10 free-throw attempts, second most in the NBA behind Luka Doncic. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland\u2019s Jerami Grant (calf) missed his second consecutive game. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Trail Blazers: Host New Orleans on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Clippers: Host San Antonio on Thursday. <\/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":"Portland Trail Blazers guard Jrue Holiday (5) shoots the ball while being guarded by LA Clippers forward Kawhi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-558275","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\/558275","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=558275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}