{"id":1163578,"date":"2026-02-23T01:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163578"},"modified":"2026-02-23T01:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:43:03","slug":"trail-blazers-all-star-guard-deni-avdija-leaves-game-vs-suns-with-lower-back-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/trail-blazers-all-star-guard-deni-avdija-leaves-game-vs-suns-with-lower-back-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers All-Star guard Deni Avdija leaves game vs. Suns with lower back injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Portland All-Star guard Deni Avdija left the Trail Blazers&#8217; game Sunday against the Phoenix Suns because of a lower back injury and the team said he won&#8217;t return to the game.<\/p>\n<p>Avdija was listed as questionable coming into the game, but decided to play. He lasted just one minute before leaving the court and going back to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p>Avdija \u2014 who has been battling lower back issues for weeks \u2014 came into the night averaging 25 points, 7.2 rebounds and 6.8 assists.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/trail-blazers-star-guard-deni-014303775.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/trail-blazers-star-guard-deni-014303775.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Portland All-Star guard Deni Avdija left the Trail Blazers&#8217; game Sunday against the Phoenix Suns because of a lower back injury and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}