The Portland Trail Blazers will be facing the LA Clippers without an ailing All-Star vet as they seek to build their first win streak of the young 2025-26 season.
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Per Underdog, former three-time All-Star shooting guard Bradley Beal will sit out with a back injury. The Clippers will elevate reserve guard Bogdan Bogdanovic to a starting role in his stead, Underdog reveals.
Lineup alert: Clippers will start Harden, Bogdanovic, Leonard, Jones Jr., Zubac on Sunday.
— Underdog NBA (@UnderdogNBA) October 26, 2025
Bogdanovic will join normal starters James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Derrick Jones Jr. and Ivica Zubac to fill out head coach Tyronn Lue’s first five.
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Portland, meanwhile, is without point guards Damian Lillard and Scoot Henderson, plus perennially-unhealthy backup center Robert Williams III. The 6-foot-9 former All-Defensive Teamer is rehabbing an offseason injury. After Sunday, he will have appeared in just 26 of a possible 167 games for Portland since the start of the 2023-24 season.
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