SAN ANTONIO (KPTV) – The Portland Trail Blazers saw their season come to a close on Tuesday, falling to the San Antonio Spurs by a final score of 114-95 in Game 5 of their first round playoff matchup.<\/p>\n
With the loss, Portland was eliminated from the playoffs, as the Spurs earned the 3-1 series victory to advance to the Western Conference Semifinals.<\/p>\n
After blowing double-digit leads in the second half of both Game 3 and Game 4, the Blazers were playing behind from the get-go Tuesday – as the Spurs raced out to an early lead they never relinquished – leading wire-to-wire in a dominating performance.<\/p>\n
San Antonio led by as many as 28 points in the game, and was up by double-digits for much of the night.<\/p>\n
The Blazers made things interesting in the fourth quarter, pulling within nine points with eight minutes remaining after back-to-back three-pointers from Jrue Holiday and Sidy Cissoko.<\/p>\n
However, the Spurs recovered following a time out to avoid another collapse of their own (Portland overcame a 14-point, fourth-quarter deficit to win Game 2), as veteran point guard De\u2019Aaron Fox took over down the stretch with 13 points in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The Blazers now look ahead to their first offseason under new owner Tom Dundon.<\/p>\n
Among the biggest questions facing the team is who will be the head coach come next fall.<\/p>\n
Tiago Splitter has served as acting head coach after Chauncey Billups was arrested following the team\u2019s first game<\/a> as part of a federal gambling indictment. Billups isn\u2019t due in court until Nov. 2, though a co-defendant in the case pleaded guilty<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n On the court, bulk of the roster is under contract through at least the 2026-27 season. Veteran rotation pieces Robert Williams III and Matisse Thybulle will both become unrestricted free agents, along with reserve guard Blake Wesley.<\/p>\n The Blazers will also have guard Damian Lillard back in the fold, after the franchise\u2019s all-time leading scorer sat out this season while recovering from an Achilles injury he suffered in the 2025 NBA Playoffs while playing for the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n Portland does not currently have a first round pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, as the lottery-protected pick was finally conveyed to the Chicago Bulls to fulfill a 2021 trade obligation.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 KPTV-KPDX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO (KPTV) – The Portland Trail Blazers saw their season come to a close on Tuesday, falling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[24366,31271,23,9069,11551,9070,6906,29362,7053,103230,3071,103231,88108,54904,20041,208726,3235,3727,10070,103232,208727,208728,4381,41452,2127,355,15195,6632,1583,22385,2862,2785,15686,19497,7241,99,10091,103238,2987,6145,2427,32432,24,10129,4398,7249],"class_list":["post-612663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-accident","tag-ambulance","tag-america","tag-american","tag-arrest","tag-background","tag-car","tag-caution","tag-city","tag-cop","tag-crime","tag-crime-scene","tag-cruiser","tag-danger","tag-deputy","tag-do-not-cross","tag-emergency","tag-event","tag-fire","tag-flashing","tag-forbidden","tag-keep-back","tag-law-enforcement","tag-lights","tag-line","tag-nba","tag-officer","tag-outdoors","tag-police","tag-rally","tag-road","tag-safety","tag-scene","tag-sheriff","tag-sign","tag-sports","tag-street","tag-tape","tag-traffic","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-urban","tag-usa","tag-vehicle","tag-warning","tag-yellow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612663","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=612663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}