Moving Into 8th, Three-Straight Road Wins And Donovan Clingan Beast Mode On The Brief Case, Episode 198

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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