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Sunday, Feb 21, 2010, 10:30 PM EST - The Rose Garden

Utah Jazz (35-19) at Portland Trail Blazers (32-25), 10:30 p.m.

Sports Network | February 21, 2010

(Sports Network) - The Utah Jazz hope to gain some ground in the Northwest Division, as they try to wrap up a perfect four-game road trip Sunday night against the Portland Trail Blazers at the Rose Garden.

Utah is only a half-game behind Denver in the division standings and has won 16 of its last 18 games, including Friday's 100-89 victory at Golden State. Carlos Boozer had 30 points and 16 rebounds, Andrei Kirilenko added 22 points, five boards and five steals and C.J. Miles tallied 16 points off the bench for Utah, which is 3-0 on the trek and has won six straight away from Salt Lake City for the first time since February 12-20, 2002.

"We passed the basketball pretty well," Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan said. "I think we had 20 assists at halftime. Guys were looking for each other and made the game pretty easy the way we played."

The last time Utah won seven in a row on the road was from January 6 - February 23, 2001. The Jazz are 13-12 as the guest this season. In injury news, center Mehmet Okur (personal) is questionable for Sunday and did not play in the win over the Warriors.

Portland is five games off the pace in the Northwest standings and will close out a three-game homestand this evening. It had a two-game winning streak stopped and fell to 1-1 on the residency following Friday's 96-76 loss versus the Boston Celtics.

Andre Miller had 16 points and LaMarcus Aldridge had 15 points and nine boards for the Blazers, who sport a 19-12 record in the Rose City and sit eighth in the West standings. Brandon Roy finished with nine points in more than 34 minutes in his second game back from a hamstring injury.

"He's been out for, what, five weeks? It's going to take him some time to get his rhythm," Blazers coach Nate McMillan said of Roy. "It seems as if we were kind of waiting for each other tonight to make something happen as opposed to coming out with that sense of urgency."

Jerryd Bayless scored 14 points off the bench in defeat. After hosting the division-rival Jazz, the Trail Blazers will kick off a five-game road trip through New Jersey, Toronto, Chicago, Minnesota and Memphis.

Utah, which is third in the West, has won three of the first four meetings with Portland this season and six of the previous nine matchups between the teams. Utah, however, has lost nine of its last 12 trips to the Rose Garden.