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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers holding on to beat the Pacers in Indianapolis on Wednesday

• Donovan Clingan gets a new career high in scoring and Deni Avdija returns to form

• Portland's bad habit of letting teams back into games

• The Trail Blazers getting one of their better wins of 2026 Friday night versus the Timberwolves in Minneapolis

• Jerami Grant saves the day in the final minutes of the fourth quarter

• Jrue Holiday just keeps turning in great yet quiet performances

• The Trail Blazers are now in eighth in the Western Conference standings with 11 games to play

• The difference between getting the seven/eight matchup versus the nine/ten matchup in the play-in tournament

• Donovan Clingan's elite performance since the All-Star break

• How Clingan leading the league in offensive rebound is integral to the Trail Blazers offense

• Clingan is arguably the best player from his draft class and is already one of the NBA's best centers

• Trail Blazers wrapping up a five-game trip Sunday afternoon in Denver (it's a 2 p.m. tipoff in Portland) before playing the second game of a back-to-back versus the Nets Monday night at Moda Center

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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers getting a five-game road trip off to a disappoint start with a loss to the 76ers in Philadelphia

• Turnovers are an issue yet again

• If neither team is playing well, the home team is usually going to win

• Taking a bus from Philadelphia to Manhattan

• Portland bouncing back with a blowout victory versus the Nets in Brooklyn

• Blazers lead by as many as 31 (good), give up a 16-0 run (bad) but do enough to get the comfortable win (good)

• Jrue Holiday the cooler

• Deni Avdija has fans everywhere, but it was on a different level Monday night in Brooklyn

• Kris Murray backs up Donovan Clingan at center

• Toumani Camara shakes off a tough game in Philly to play one of his best this season in Brooklyn

• The Trail Blazers remain a half game behind the Warriors in the race to host a play-in game

• The trip moves on to Indianapolis on Wednesday, Minneapolis on Friday and wraps up in Denver on Sunday

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On this edition of The Brief Case, presented by Spirit Mountain Casino, Trail Blazers reporter/Insider Casey Holdahl discusses...

• The Trail Blazers defeating the Grizzlies in Memphis Wednesday night behind the play of Jrue, Jerami and Rob

• Jrue, Rob and Jerami all doing more as we enter the last month of the regular season

• Portland giving themselves a chance in the first three quarters before faltering in the fourth in Friday's loss to the Rockets

• Finishing a five-game trip with a 2-3 record

• Returning to Moda Center for three games before heading out for another five-game trip

• After a rough road trip, Scoot Henderson turned in his best game of the season and one of the best games of his career to lead the Trail Blazers past the Pacers Sunday night

• Deni Avdija returns in Sunday's win after missing six games with a back injury

• Another late-game Blake Wesley to Yang Hansen connection

• Hosting the Hornets and Jazz before a five game trip with stops in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Denver