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Jerami Grant Buries Late 3s as Blazers Edge Wolves, Climb to Eighth in West

The win nudged Portland into the West’s eighth seed in a tightening race for play-in positioning.

Overview

  • Grant hit two clutch threes in the final 1:40, including the go-ahead shot with 22.2 seconds left, finishing with 26 points in a 108-104 road win.
  • Portland secured its third straight victory to move into eighth place, strengthening its play-in outlook with only weeks left in the regular season.
  • Donovan Clingan logged his sixth straight double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds, and Deni Avdija added 25 points and eight boards.
  • Short-handed Minnesota played without Anthony Edwards (right knee inflammation) and Naz Reid, who missed a second game with a right knee sprain.
  • Rudy Gobert (18 points, 15 rebounds), Julius Randle (19 points) and Ayo Dosunmu (17 points, 10 rebounds) led the Wolves, who briefly erased an 18-point deficit before Portland closed it out.