...After Antonio Harvey's bank shot to open the fourth quarter, the Blazers didn't get another field goal until Brian Grant's layup with 4:02 left made it 81-75. The kept the lead by making nine of 13 free throws during the stretch...

...5 points per game this season, has averaged just 11.8 points in four games Portland and shot 33 percent. ... Brian Grant, the Blazers' best rebounder, sat out the game with a sore right foot. ... Sabonis had 16 points and 11 rebounds...

...Steve Smith, Damon Stoudamire. Key reserves: Utah -- Howard Eisley, Armen Gilliam, Greg Ostertag. Portland -- Brian Grant, Detlef Schrempf, Bonzi Wells, Greg Anthony. Season series: Portland won 3-1. Storyline: Sloan, Malone or...

...rim. The series moves Tuesday to Portland, where Utah has won once in 15 playoff games and lost 13 straight. No NBA team has ever won a seven-game series after trailing 3-0. Brian Grant led the Blazers with 20 points and 13 rebounds.

...thing, and that's winning, and I don't think he'll let Olden Polynice or anybody take him out of that,'' Brian Grant said. Pippen also was perturbed by coach Mike Dunleavy's decision to keep him out of the game for the first 10 minutes...

...using big lineups (including one combination of Pippen and Bonzi Wells at guards and a frontcourt of Arvydas Sabonis, Brian Grant and Rasheed Wallace) over the past two games and forcing Phil Jackson to react. The Trail Blazers won because Wells...

...Derek Anderson, Clippers: He's gone too. Maybe to Denver, which has been love-bombing him for months. -- Brian Grant, Portland: Opted out of a contract paying more than $10 million a year. Did anyone tell him he can't hope to make...

...sign-and-trade deal for Glen Rice, with a possible fallback deal sending Rice to Miami for Anthony Mason. Portland forward Brian Grant spent the day trying to decide whether he'd like to play in Cleveland. The Cavs and Trail Blazers have discussed...

...Kobe Bryant. The Knicks have had a run of failures this summer in acquiring any of the best players -- Grant Hill, Brian Grant, Danny Fortson, and now Baker and Rice -- that they had set their sights on. Among the other players that reportedly...

...was traded Wednesday to the Blazers, who re-signed Brian Grant and shipped him to Miami. "It gives us a guy who can...ready to play. That's not an issue to me." Replacing Brian Grant won't be easy for Kemp, at least not right away...