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Sunday, November 30 • 3 p.m. PTModa Center • Portland, OregonTV: KUNP/KATU/BlazerVision • Radio: Rip City Radio 620 AMRegular Season Game #20 • Home Game #9

For the third time since the start of the 2025-26 season and for the second time in the last week, the Portland Trail Blazers (8-11) will face the Oklahoma City Thunder (19-1), this time at Moda Center in the first Sunday Family Funday this season. Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m.

SERIES NOTES

Overall: 121-139Home: 79-52 | Away: 42-88Streak: Lost 1Last Portland win: 11/5/2025

• Donovan Clingan (illness) is questionable, Jrue Holiday (calf strain), Scoot Henderson (left hamstring tear), Damian Lillard (left Achilles tendon) Matisse Thybulle (left thumb ligament tear) and Blake Wesley (right foot fracture) are out for Sunday's game.

• As for the Thunder, Isaih Hartenstein (soleus), Thomas Sorber(ACL) and Nikola Topic (surgery recovery) are out.

YOU WIN SOME, YOU LOSE SOME• Earlier this month the Trail Blazers snapped a 16-game losing streak in their series with the Thunder (Oklahoma City's only loss of the season), before getting blown out by 27 points last Sunday in Oklahoma City.

GOING BACK FOR SECONDS• It should be a tussle for second-chance points tonight -- no club is getting more this season on second-chance opportunities than the Blazers, while the Thunder are the best at denying such shots.

INTERNATIONAL BUCKETS• Deni Avdija and Shaedon Sharpe are on pace to place themselves in elite company among the top scoring duos in Trail Blazers history who have combined to average at least 45.0 points per game. So far this season Avdija is averaging 25.5 points per game while Sharpe is at 21.8, for a combined 47.3.

AVDIJA AMONG BEST IN NBA IN 20-POINT GAMES• Deni Avdija has scored 20 or more points in all but two games this season and in 21 of his last 24 games dating to last season.• Avdija’s 16 20-point games this season are tied for the third most in the NBA this season

AVDIJA RECORDS ANOTHER 30-POINT TRIPLE-DOUBLE• Deni Avdija’s 32-point, 11-rebound, 11-assist (career-high) performance on Wednesday against Chicago marked his third career triple-double and first of this season.• The outing also marked Avdija’s third triple-double in which he scored 30+ points, moving him into a tie for second place in Trail Blazers history in such games.

BLAZERS EARNING AND CAPITALIZING ON SECOND CHANCES• Portland ranks top five in the NBA in both offensive rebounds per game and second chance points per game.

BLAZERS NAVIGATE TOUGH START TO SEASON• In 13 of its 19 games this season, Portland has faced a team that made the 2025 NBA Playoffs as a top eight seed.• The Trail Blazers have notched wins this season over Oklahoma City (2024-25 West No. 1), LA Lakers (West No. 3), Denver (West No. 4) and a pair of victories over Golden State (West No. 7).• Portland has faced the second toughest strength of schedule in the NBA to this point in the season.

GRANT GETS OFF TO ELITE START OFF THE BENCH• Coming off the bench in all but one game this season, Jerami Grant currently leads the NBA in points per game off the bench (min. 5 GP)• Over the season’s first 10 games, Grant scored 197 total points (19.7 ppg)—all off the bench and tied the fourth most points off the bench over the first 10 games of a season in the last 25 NBA seasons

HOLIDAY FILLS STAT SHEET IN FIRST SIX GAMES• Early on in his first season as a Trail Blazer, Jrue Holiday has filled the stat sheet—and is one of just seven NBA players to average 15+ ppg, 8+ apg and 5+ rpg this season (min. 10 GP).

SHARPE BECOMES YOUNGEST BLAZER TO REACH 1,000 FGM• Aged 22 years, 150 days old, Shaedon Sharpe connected on his 1,000th career made field goal on Monday in Los Angeles—making him the youngest player in Trail Blazers history to reach that mark.

BLAZERS TURNING UP THE PACE IN 2025-26• After ranking middle of the pack in the NBA in pace in 2024-25, Portland boasts a top five pace in the NBA through the season’s first seven games—also leading to an uptick in fastbreak points.

THYBULLE BOASTS NBA’S SECOND LONGEST STEALS STREAK• Dating to last season, Matisse Thybulle has recorded at least one steal in 19 consecutive games—the second-longest such active streak by any NBA player.• Thybulle’s streak dates to March 16—his first game played of the 2024-25 season after missing the season’s first 67 games due to injury.• From March 16 through the end of the 2024-25 season, Thybulle’s 33 total steals were second most of any player in the NBA.

BLAZERS ROSTER FEATURES FOUR ALL-DEFENSIVE SELECTIONS• With the offseason addition of Jrue Holiday—along with Toumani Camara’s Second Team All-Defensive Team selection in 2024-25— Portland’s roster now boasts four players who have made at least one All-Defensive Team within the past four seasons:• Toumani Camara – 2024-25 (2nd)• Jrue Holiday – 2023-24 (2nd) / 2022-23 (1st) / 2021-22 (2nd) • Matisse Thybulle – 2021-22 (2nd)• Robert Williams III – 2021-22 (2nd)• In total over the course of his career, Holiday has made six All- Defensive teams, while Thybulle has made two.

LILLARD RETURNS TO RIP CITY• Nine-time NBA All-Star and seven-time All-NBA selection Damian Lillard announced his return to the Trail Blazers in July.• Originally selected No. 6 overall by the Trail Blazers in the 2012 NBA Draft, Lillard spent the first 11 seasons of his storied NBA career in Portland.• Across 769 regular season games, Lillard posted averages of 25.2 points (43.9% FG, 37.2% 3-PT, 89.5% FT), 6.7 assists, 4.2 rebounds and 1.0 steals in 36.3 minutes per game.

ROLLING THUNDER• Only one team in NBA history had a better record through the first 20 games of a season than what the Thunder owns at this juncture of 2025-26. The 1990-91 Trail Blazers also started their season 19-1.

DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPSOklahoma City's current 11-game winning streak has been fueled by solid defense. The Thunder have held their opponent under 100 points four times during the streak, and they've been able to come up with at least eight steals in every game to make it a rare run in NBA history.

TREBALL IS ODEE SHOOTING HANGPULLS• Chet Holmgren is three treys shy of 200 since he joined the league, and he's done that in 130 games. Among seven-footers in NBA history, he's been one of the most successful at stepping out from beyond the arc at this juncture of a career.

Sunday's game will air on KATU, KUNP and BlazerVision with Kevin Calabro, Lamar Hurd and Brooke Olzendam on the call. Travis Demers will have the play-by-play on Rip City Radio 620 AM. For all viewing options, please visit trailblazers.com/watch or NBA.com for more ways to watch.

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Residential curbside compost collection allows food and yard waste, as well as food-soiled paper and pizza boxes.

Business compost collection is food only.

Apartments or condos that offer compost service may be food only or may allow yard waste as well. Look at the stickers on the bin or ask the property manager.

Learn why the guidelines are different and how your food and yard waste are turned into nutrient-rich fertilizers and renewable energy.

Food

NO “compostable” containers, packaging, or other items labeled "compostable," "biodegradable," or "made from plants.” Learn why. (The only exception is ).

NO waxed paper, parchment paper or facial tissue.

NO beverage stir sticks (wood or plastic) or toothpicks.

NO plastic bags, plastic wrap, metal, or glass: Remove all packaging from food before putting it in your compost bin.

NO liquids, grease, or cooking oil.

Yard waste

Homes (and smallplexes with up to 4 units) can put food and yard waste together in their green bin.

Businesses cannot put yard waste or food soiled paper in their compost.

NO pet waste, animal bedding (including straw and chicken manure), or animal carcasses from hunting and fishing.

NO fireplace ashes, dirt, rocks, sod, lumber, treated wood, or sawdust.

NO stumps or large branches (more than 4 inches thick and 36 inches long).

NO raw, painted, or treated wood or pallets.

Not sure if it can go in compost?

Contact us at 503-823-7202 or wasteinfo@portlandoregon.gov.

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They were converging, in the blue light of dawn Tuesday, on Kaiser Permanente’s Sunnyside Medical Center. They deposited their cars. They moved in packs along the sidewalk. Nearly all dressed in their union’s red, emitting frequent whoops of delight, they appeared as home-team sports fans, arriving at a stadium for the big game.

At 7 am, thousands of Portland-area Kaiser Permanente nurses, lab workers and other staff went on strike, joining a massive temporary work stoppage across multiple states designed to pressure the health care giant to give in to union demands as contract negotiations drag on.

As the strike began, union members who had arrived from elsewhere cheered on workers streaming out from the hospital entrance—one of several strike locations in the area. Together, they launched an initial picket along Sunnyside Road, a major Clackamas County thoroughfare.

Labor groups participating in the strike represent some 45,000 workers around the country. Kaiser, in negotiations with the Alliance of Health Care Unions, has offered to increase pay across the board by 21.5% over four years, short of the 25% the unions seek.

The labor groups say inadequate pay leads to turnover and recruitment challenges, which lead to unsafe staffing levels. “We have a duty to speak out,” said Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals president Sarina Roher, minutes after the picket began. “We are not walking out on our patients. We are simply standing up for them.”

Kaiser says it already offers competitive pay and benefits, and that it cannot meet worker demands—which are “out of step with today’s economic realities and rising health care costs”—without incurring a dramatic increase in payroll expenses, which would get passed on to patients.

Kaiser received formal notice of the coming strike about 10 days ago. It says its hospitals, medical and dental offices, and pharmacies—of which it has collectively dozens in the greater Portland area—will remain open for the duration.

Physicians, experienced managers, and trained staff will provide care, “with added licensed contract professionals as needed,” Kaiser says. Still, it adds that it is shifting some appointments to virtual care, and may need to reschedule certain appointments, elective surgeries, and procedures.

The strike is set to last at most through Sunday morning. Members of the Alliance of Health Care Unions debated durations ranging from three days to an open-ended stoppage, says Clarissa Charlier, an emergency room nurse and a strike leader.

“The beauty of a five-day strike is it’s a little less stressful to staff,” said Charlier, who will miss three shifts during the strike, in an interview. Plus, she added, studies show that in the health care context, defined-length strikes get results.

While they’re off the job, union members like Charlier have signed up to staff picket lines at Westside, Sunnyside and Interstate Medical Centers, among other locations in Southwest Washington and Salem.

Some patients may put off seeking care during the strike. It could affect Kaiser in other ways too. Temporary contract health workers, for example, tend to command far higher wages than regular staff. Zip Recruiter calculates that travel nurses on average earn about $16 an hour more than their in-house counterparts.

Kaiser gets its temporary workers through the staffing company AMN Healthcare. As her union set up for the strike Tuesday morning, Charlier says, she saw charter buses full of temporary replacements, pulling into the hospital.

The complexity of the homelessness issue is apparent in its numbers. According to the 2023 Point in Time Count, thousands of people are living unsheltered on our streets.

During that same time period, the City of Portland spent $1.7B on affordable housing development and other services, including the opening of 4,608 affordable housing units. These funds supported prevention measures (e.g. housing subsidies) for 35,550 Portlanders in 2022. Additionally, 13,190 Portlanders received permanent housing assistance in 2022. Despite these efforts, many who seek affordable housing still face years-long waiting lists.

Short-term shelter has increased but not kept up with the need. Between 2015 and 2022, the number of available shelter beds in Multnomah County grew from 800 to 2,000 beds. About 6,000 individuals use shelter beds each year in Portland.

Personal challenges for those living on the streets also complicate our efforts, in particular untreated mental illness and substance abuse. Estimates put the range of substance use among individuals living on the streets between 58 and 88 percent. The low cost and prevalence of fentanyl has made it an increasingly popular drug of choice, and its deadliness is evidenced in record overdoses and the sad reality that fentanyl is now the number one killer of people under the age of 50.

The sad truth is that despite years of attention and funding to address the issue of homelessness in our community, it still poses a crisis that calls for more solutions.

Currently there are hundreds of unsanctioned camps spread out across virtually every neighborhood of our city, over a massive 146 square mile area. The City of Portland evaluated an average of 115 locations per day for violations of safety and sanitary conditions. An average of 16 locations per day were cleared and cleaned due to safety and environmental concerns.

Due to the dispersed nature of the homeless population, there’s no way to provide the kind of consistent case management or follow-up required to successfully connect people to the services or shelter they need.

Mayor Ted Wheeler created Portland Solutions, formally established July 1 2024, to create a centralized program hub to address our community’s most pressing homelessness and livability challenges. It brings several programs under one umbrella for added effectiveness and service.

On May 8, 2024, the Portland City Council unanimously approved the revised public camping ordinance introduced by Mayor Ted Wheeler.

These regulations are different from what the Council passed in 2023, which is currently enjoined by the circuit court. The ordinance will repeal the previous code provisions and replace them with these new regulations. Namely, the new regulations:

Are you looking to report an illegal campsite? The City of Portland’s Campsite Reporting System is the mechanism community members can use to report issues of illegal camping or related garbage within Portland. There are two ways to report a campsite using the Campsite Reporting System. Please use just ONE of the following methods:

You can find the weekly Street Services reports here: Reports | Street Services Coordination Center

You can also dial 2-1-1 or email help@211info.org for free, confidential information about health, community and social services near you. Calls answered in over 150 languages.

There are lots of ways to get information:

211 is everyone's front door to information on more than 7,000 nonprofit, government and faith-based health and social services programs in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Portland's Temporary Alternative Shelter Sites provide a compassionate service model that is informed by those with lived experience, including a safe, secure, and hygienic place for residents to meaningfully connect with services to access housing, mental health support, substance use disorder treatment and other critical resources provided by non-profit and county partners.

The first site - Clinton Triangle - began operations in July 2023. You can find more information about the site and future sites below.

Mayor Wheeler has directed the City to step in and directly manage the shelter facility at the River District Navigation Center to 100 people from potentially returning to living unsheltered in Portland.

Safe Rest Villages are alternative shelters that serve as improved points of entry for Portlanders on the continuum from living on the streets to finding stability in permanent housing. The program is mostly focused on alternative, outdoor shelters, but is also in charge of Portland's first RV Safe Park.

The Street Services Coordination Center, activated in March 2022, is centralized incident command structure to connect local agencies and service providers to a singular point of contact.

The City of Portland works very closely with Multnomah County and state leadership on homelessness, mental/behavioral health, and addiction. Mayor Wheeler’s office serves on the Behavioral Health Emergency Coordination Network (BHECN) executive committee, which is working to open and expand resources focused on sobering, detox and mental/behavioral health services. The City of Portland is committing $1.9 million in ongoing funding to the BHECN project and invests millions of dollars with Central City Concern (CCC) on programming including behavioral health outreach. Most recently, City Council provided a $335,000 grant to Unity Center’s Psychiatric Hospital to open 9 new sobering beds in partnership with Multnomah County, Care Oregon and Legacy.

Counties play a lead role in providing behavioral health services in Oregon with support and ongoing partnership from the cites. As additional local resources are needed for behavioral health services, cites across Oregon have been stepping in to create new and complementary services alongside the work of the counties. The City of Portland funds and administers the following behavioral health related programming within city boundaries in Multnomah County.

CITY OF PORTLAND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH RELATED PROGRAMS

This work is interconnected and multi-faceted, as each individual has unique challenges and needs. We are also looking to our regional partners, with ample funding and underspent resources, to get more services online as quickly as possible and will do all we can to support and expand those efforts.

On Friday, May 3 2024, Governor Tina Kotek, Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson, and Mayor Ted Wheeler released the on the 90-day state of emergency to help address the public health and public safety crisis driven by fentanyl in Portland. The emergency response was a recommendation by the governor’s . More information.

There are two primary avenues for an individual to connect to shelter. The first avenue is to research shelters, their contact information, and entry requirements at the Joint Office of Homeless Services shelter information page. You can also contact an expert by calling 2-1-1 or visiting 211info.org. The experts at 2-1-1 cannot refer you into a shelter but they can help research shelter information with you.

The second avenue is to request contact from a City Street Outreach Worker. This opportunity is for individuals who are currently unsheltered and seeking help. Due to high demand, City Outreach workers cannot guarantee shelter availability, but they are committed to heling you navigate your next step.

To request help from a City Outreach Worker, please complete the below form. It will take about 2-3 minutes to complete.

If you are concerned that someone who is homeless needs an immediate welfare check, please contact 9-1-1 for Portland Street Response.