The Portland Trail Blazers close their 2025-26 regular season on Sunday evening against the Sacramento Kings, and they do it with more injury questions than they would want heading into next week’s Play-In Tournament. The game tips at 5:30 PM Pacific.
Portland’s last game brought Shaedon Sharpe back after a 26-game absence, but it also left Matisse Thybulle dinged up. Thybulle is listed as probable for Sunday with a right ankle sprain, while Vit Krejci is questionable because of a left calf contusion. Jerami Grant is out with a right calf strain, and Damian Lillard is out because of a left Achilles tendon issue.
That makes the final tune-up before the Play-In Tournament more about survival than polish for Portland. The Blazers are managing several backcourt availability questions at once, which gives the injury report added weight at a moment when the margin for error is already gone. A similar shorthanded look has already shaped Portland’s recent stretch, including the game in which Grant was ruled out against the Spurs, and the stakes are bigger now with the Clippers meeting already showing how tightly packed the Play-In chase can be.
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What matters next is simple: Portland gets one more regular-season game to sort through who is available before the first game of next week’s Play-In Tournament. If the Blazers are going to carry any momentum into that bracket, they will have to do it while balancing health, rotation uncertainty and one last matchup with Sacramento.
