Game Thread 2026 NBA PLAY-IN #1 - BLAZERS @ SUNS - APRIL 14, 2026 - TUESDAY - 7:00 PM - PRIME - SIRIUS XM (4 Viewers)

[Quatro44]

Blazers are giving their best punch and can barely lead. That tells u right there phx will run away with this

This post aged poorly

 

[SheedSoNasty]

That was one hell of a performance and definitely cements Deni as one of the best Blazers in recent memory.

 

[Everything Beagle]

If that pick ends up being great I don’t think I’ll ever shut up about it sorry in advance. It’ll happen.

That’s fair lol

 

[Sheldon Shape]

I would say Tiago has generally done a good job. I didn't love some things from him tonight. Does anyone know if Scoot is healthy?

 

[Everything Beagle]

That was one hell of a performance and definitely cements Deni as one of the best Blazers in recent memory.

The wildest dreams of Rudy Fernandez made manifest in Deni Avdija

 

[PCmor7]

the Blazers can clearly build around Deni. I don't know who fits right now. They're not consistent enough. Jerami Grant is great if he doesn't try to do too much.

The Blazers will have a team that can play the mismatches. Deni scored 41 tonight, and yet I thought he did a lot of that without forcing the action against better defenders. Honestly, I thought Jrue was doing some really boneheaded stuff.

I don't mind Jerami trying to do too much if he's being guarded by the other team's fourth-best defender.

I don't think this will be so much a matter of who fits as much as how we make it fit. What is the style we employ. How deep are we going on the bench and how many minutes each of these guys are playing.

Deni could score less next year and be a significantly better player, which is scary. I think his 3-point shot struggled a bit the last couple of months from a combination of overuse and also that the way we played him he took more shots from the top when over the summer and the early part of the season he shot well from the wing. Again, if they can keep this team relatively healthy next year, Deni can go into the playoffs with a lot more tread on his tires.

 

[BoBoBREWSKI]

Round 1 vs Spurs
Game 1 - 4/19 Sunday - 6:00 - NBC
Game 2 - 4/21 Tuesday - 5:00 - NBC
Game 3 - 4/24 Friday - 7:30 - PRIME
Game 4 - 4/26 Sunday - 12:30 - ESPN
Game 5 - 4/28 Tuesday - TBD
Game 6 - 4/30 Thursday - TBD
Game 7 - 5/2 Saturday - TBD

 

[julius]

Something tells me they will have to beat the Clippers.

Probably. And their prize is as bad as ours...

 

[Stevenson]

Not trying to be a downer but I'm now just hoping for competiitve games from our guys and maybe a win or two against the San Antonio Wembies.

Well, if anyone can slow Wemby down a bit, Donovan is as good of a bet as any.

 

[Tince]

Round 1 vs Spurs
Game 1 - 4/19 Sunday - 6:00 - NBC
Game 2 - 4/21 Tuesday - 5:00 - NBC
Game 3 - 4/24 Friday - 7:30 - PRIME
Game 4 - 4/26 Sunday - 12:30 - ESPN
Game 5 - 4/28 Tuesday - TBD
Game 6 - 4/30 Thursday - TBD
Game 7 - 5/2 Saturday - TBD

When do tickets go on sale?

 

[julius]

Going to be a real coin flip. Could go either way.

Heads in 5...tails in 4.

 

[julius]

seriously tho, what is that in Jrue's mouth!?

 

[HailBlazers]

Udonis Haslem:
"Let me tell you there was no foul baiting tonight... He was getting downhill, taking the contact and finishing over people.. I don't want to hear nothing about foul baiting and Deni Avdija" @THE HCP.

 

[PCmor7]

If that pick ends up being great I don’t think I’ll ever shut up about it sorry in advance. It’ll happen.

You can't fault this team for ascending.

I prefer to keep blaming Neil Olshey for trading good assets away for mid players like Larry Nance Jr.

 

[PCmor7]

seriously tho, what is that in Jrue's mouth!?

I thought it was a toothpick.

 

[blazerfan11]

Round 1 vs Spurs
Game 1 - 4/19 Sunday - 6:00 - NBC
Game 2 - 4/21 Tuesday - 5:00 - NBC
Game 3 - 4/24 Friday - 7:30 - PRIME
Game 4 - 4/26 Sunday - 12:30 - ESPN
Game 5 - 4/28 Tuesday - TBD
Game 6 - 4/30 Thursday - TBD
Game 7 - 5/2 Saturday - TBD

Friday and Sunday home games. Awesome!

 

[blazerfan11]

I thought it was a toothpick.

I thought it was straw or some kind of vegetation.

 

[PCmor7]

Just going to say this: I love the draft, and I love this draft.

But to see this team play the way it did down the stretch when it got healthy, to go on the road in the play-in, to get down double-figures in the fourth quarter after leading by double figures in the first half, to not play its best game and to gut it out and win at the end, I'm more than thrilled. If they had won that game any other way, I might be disappointed, but they won tonight like a good team wins. I don't see how you couldn't at least give the benefit of the doubt to how this team has been built and be excited for what it's capable of next year with Lillard back and so many young contributors who presumably would be better.

If you can't find a way to enjoy this, man, what are you alive for?

 

[42N8Bounce]

I'd be happy with 5 and ecstatic with 6.

I like your confidence, but I don’t think the Blazers can put the Spurs away that fast.

 

[Domihatin]

Udonis Haslem:
"Let me tell you there was no foul baiting tonight... He was getting downhill, taking the contact and finishing over people.. I don't want to hear nothing about foul baiting and Deni Avdija" @THE HCP.

Damn right.

 

[BBert]

I would say Tiago has generally done a good job. I didn't love some things from him tonight. Does anyone know if Scoot is healthy?

He was limping at one point

 

[PCmor7]

I thought it was straw or some kind of vegetation.

He's chewing on a piece of hay.

EDIT: He's chewing on the remains of Dillon Brooks.

 

[BBert]

I thought it was a toothpick.

It looks curved?

 

[blazerfan11]

He's chewing on a piece of hay.

EDIT: He's chewing on the remains of Dillon Brooks.

 

[STOMP]

Ed Molloy was running the replay center so that’s why Clingan got that flagrant 1

 

[Chris Craig]

He's chewing on a piece of hay.

EDIT: He's chewing on the remains of Dillon Brooks.

Buckwheat maybe?

 

[STOMP]

It was a flagrant. Flagrant fakery. TV guys said Clingan pulled Brooks to the floor. LOL. What happened was, as soon as Brooks felt contact to his neck he wisely fell to the floor.

Don't know if TV guys said that as I've come to tune them out, but the ref did in his explanation of the fake drama call. Having just watched the replay 12 times it's amazing he said that. To me it seemed like the refereeing was dead set on making this game a photo finish.

STOMP

 

[julius]

I thought it was a toothpick.

It looked shiny, and I can't imagine they'd allow that?? It's a choking Hazzard.

 

[PCmor7]

I can't imagine they'd allow that?? It's a choking Hazzard.

Same. But I still thought it was a toothpick.

 

[julius]

The Google implies it's a plastic toothpick, so maybe you're correct.