{"id":433918,"date":"2025-03-20T19:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=433918"},"modified":"2025-03-20T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:27:50","slug":"highlights-deni-avdija-is-the-blazers-one-man-fast-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/highlights-deni-avdija-is-the-blazers-one-man-fast-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Deni Avdija is the Blazers&#8217; &#8216;One-Man Fast Break&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deni Avdija proves again to be one of the bright spots of the Portland Trail Blazers&#8217; season by leading the team to a win over the Memphis Grizzlies with 31 points, 16 rebounds and 8 assists.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli wing last summer struggled to accept the move from the Wizards to Portland, but now that has definitely changed thanks to his performance on the court.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6212140\/2025\/03\/18\/deni-avdija-wizards-trail-blazers-trade\/\">The Athletic<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was nighttime at my place (in Israel), and I woke up. I saw I got traded, and it was very hard for me. All the friendships that I had with the guys there, the city, the fans \u2014 it all just disappeared in a second. But everything\u2019s for the good. I feel like I found a nice home in Portland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also took the high road, saying, \u201cI can only control how I play, how I practice, how I prepare myself for the season. If people wanted to trade me, it\u2019s above my paycheck, you know what I\u2019m saying? I don\u2019t control it. I just do whatever I can to win games. That\u2019s about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Avdija, who is scoring 15.6 points with 6.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game, has been described by Coach Billups as a &#8216;one-man fast break&#8217; because of his ability to grab the rebound and start the transition right away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire that he plays with, I think, takes our team to another level. The edge that he plays with, the toughness that he plays with \u2014 we need it&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Deni Avdija&#039;s MONSTER 31-PT DOUBLE-DOUBLE! | March 19, 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_A3knjgc-M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Israeli forward is scoring 15.6 points with 6.8 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":433917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[187],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-433918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/deni-avdija-blazers.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433918"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=433918"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=433918"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=433918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}