Portland Trail Blazers All-Star Deni Avdija was putting the finishing touches on a dominant 35-point performance Friday night when he raised his right hand high in the air. Twitching his fingers up and down, he motioned the sellout Moda Center crowd to rise to its feet and make noise. Just a few minutes later, Blazers […]
The Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 116-97 on Friday night in the most important game of the season for both teams. The win was critical, tying the season standings between the competitors at 41-40. Though the head-to-head season series is also tied 2-2, Portland leads the Conference Wins tiebreaker. Practically speaking, that […]
The Portland Trail Blazers went into their biggest game in years and came out with a 116-97 victory over the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night. Deni Avdija led the way for the Blazers with 35 points, more than compensating for the 24 by Kawhi Leonard for the Clippers. The win gives Portland the inside […]
The Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers have completed the first two quarters of their critical late-season matchup to determine Western Conference standings for 2026. The second half remains ahead. You can talk about the action with your friends and neighbors right here! The basic info on the game: Portland Trail Blazers (40-40) vs […]
The Portland Trail Blazers and Los Angeles Clippers will play at Portland’s Moda Center at 7:00 PM, Pacific tonight with 8th Place (and a critical Play-In Tournament advantage) on the line. If the Clippers win, the race is over. Portland will finish 9th in the Western Conference. If the Blazers win, they will tie L.A. […]
The Portland Trail Blazers will have a little extra help as they face the Los Angeles Clippers at the Moda Center tonight. Per Blazer’s Edge media member Conor Bergin, Blazers Head Coach Tiago Splitter says that guard Shaedon Sharpe will be available to play against Los Angeles. Sharpe, a starter for much of the season, […]
The Mavericks were 1-3 this weekend and remained in 13th place in the West. They lost to Orlando (138-127) and beat the hobbled Lakers (134-128) before heading out West for back-to-back losses to the Clippers (116-103) and Phoenix (112-108). Cooper Flagg led the team in scoring with, and this is not a typo, 33 points […]
The Portland Trail Blazers host the Los Angeles Clippers this evening in a pivotal game as the postseason nears. What makes this game to important? If the Blazers win and defeat the tanking Sacramento Kings on Sunday, Portland will earn the 8th seed in the West. The 8th seed will play the 7th seed, the […]
The Portland Trail Blazers will face their most important game of the season on Friday as they take on the Los Angeles Clippers at 7:00 PM, Pacific for rights to 8th-place position in the NBA’s Western Conference. As they do so, the Blazers await the return of a couple key players who have been sidelined […]
The Portland Trail Blazers will play their most significant game of the season on Friday night as they take on the Los Angeles Clippers at the Moda Center at 7:00 PM, Pacific. At stake is 8th place in the Western Conference Play-In Tournament, a position which has twin benefits: Portland (40-40) and Los Angeles (41-39) […]
The Portland Trail Blazers got some good news out of their trip to play the San Antonio Spurs on Wednesday night. The Los Angeles Clippers, the team the Blazers are racing in the road to the NBA Play-In Tournament, lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder. That took the sting out of Portland’s 112-101 defeat at […]
The Dallas Mavericks were out west Tuesday night to take on the Los Angeles Clippers in what ended in a 116-103 loss. This one started very ugly, got better to the tune of the Mavs impossibly taking a lead, and then trended back to ugly. Here are a few stats to know from a rough […]
The Dallas Mavericks got run off the floor Tuesday night, falling 116-103 to the Los Angeles Clippers in a game that followed a familiar script from this stretch of the season. Dallas struggled offensively all night, shooting just 35.0% from the field and 6-of-33 from three (18.2%), making it nearly impossible to keep up despite […]
The Dallas Mavericks (25-53) head back out on the road for their final trip of the season. The first game is Tuesday night, late, against the Los Angeles Clippers (40-38). The Mavericks are coming off a fun, but lottery impactful win against the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday evening. The Clippers last beat the Kings […]
The 2025-26 NBA Season is winding to a close, and the Portland Trail Blazers have some important games down the stretch of the season. This week they went 2-1 with wins over the Los Angeles Clippers and New Orleans Pelicans and their lone loss coming in overtime against the Denver Nuggets on the road. With […]
Coming off a blowout win against the Los Angeles Clippers, the Spurs traveled to Denver for their last road game of the regular season. Victor Wembanyama returned from injury management. Both teams started the game blazing from the field, with the Spurs outscoring the Nuggets 43-36 in the first quarter. The pace continued in the […]
On the second night of a back-to-back, the San Antonio Spurs waltzed into Los Angeles and beat a potential first-round playoff opponent. The Spurs beat the Clippers 118-99 without their star player, Victor Wembanyama. Instead, the team was led by its trio of guards. De’Aaron Fox, Stephon Castle, and Dylan Harper have been playing great […]
Last night the Portland Trail Blazers passed the Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA’s Western Conference standings, taking over the 8th spot by half a game. The season’s outcome is still up in the air. If Portland stays in 8th position, they have two chances to win one game to advance to the 2026 NBA […]
With their win over the New Orleans Pelicans last night and the Los Angeles Clippers losing, the Portland Trail Blazers have now jumped ahead of the Clippers for the eighth seed in the Western Conference as the 2026 postseason looms. With just four games remaining in their season, Portland (40-38) now holds a slim 0.5 […]
Coming off a victory against the Golden State Warriors, the Spurs traveled to the Intuit Dome to take on the Los Angeles Clippers. Victor Wembanyama missed this game due to ankle injury management. Without Wemby, the Spurs went back and forth with the Clippers in the first quarter. After leading by eight, the Spurs outscored […]
I’m fascinated by limitations. I don’t think I’m alone in this, but in my case, the fascination borders on morbidity. Even when the ceiling on something is predictably low, I’m curious as to how precisely low that is. NFTs seemed like such obvious snake oil (especially the whole ‘Bored Ape’ phenomenon), but I couldn’t stop […]
No Wemby, no problem. The Spurs won their third game in four nights and 11th straight Thursday night in an up and down game against the Clippers, keeping the #1 seed within reach while giving the Alien a night off. It was a high-scoring game from the tip. Kawhi continued his magnificent season and scored […]
Stephon Castle’s heady leadership and playmaking, interspersed with highlight plays from De’Aaron Fox, Keldon Johnson, and Dylan Harper, turbocharged a decisive 21-5 ambush in the fourth quarter to thwart a Clippers comeback. Without the services of MVP and DPOY candidate Victor Wembanyama, San Antonio (59-18) weathered a good first half by Kawhi Leonard to hold […]
Welcome to the Game Thread. Veterans of the Game Thread know how we do things around here, but for all you newbies we have a few rules. Our community guidelines apply and basically say be cool, no personal attacks, don’t troll and don’t swear too much. The Spurs will play their last back-to-back of the season in […]
The Portland Trail Blazers take on the New Orleans Pelicans at the Moda Center tonight. It’d be easy to dismiss a game against a team that’s won just 25 of 76 games as trivial. Reality check: if the Blazers don’t win this one, their hard-fought, rallying cry victory against the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday […]