The Portland Trail Blazers might be losing players left and right, but rookie Brandon Roy is determined to keep them from losing games.

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Roy scored a season-high 29 points Wednesday night, and the Blazers came away with a surprising 94-89 win over Northwest Division-leader Utah.

That came on the heels of the announcement that Roy been named rookie of the month for the third straight time.

That most likely makes the 6-foot-6 guard the favorite for NBA Rookie of the Year, an honor the Blazers have been campaigning in earnest for University of Washington grad to win.

Injury-plagued Portland is down to 11 players after losing two starters in less than a week.

With the seventh-worst record in the league at 30-44, Portland is in the running for a high pick in the June draft.

Roy would rather see his team keep on winning.He scored 25 points in the second half against the Jazz, and hit seven of eight free throws down the stretch to give Portland the win.

"As long as I'm on the court, I'm going to keep trying to hurt that lottery selection," he said. "I'm playing to win."

LaMarcus Aldridge, the latest Blazer to go down, underwent more tests Wednesday after leaving a game and going to the hospital Sunday with dizziness and an irregular heartbeat.

The Blazers say Aldridge is out indefinitely and will miss at minimum three more games as he prepares to see doctors in Portland and perhaps Los Angeles.

Aldridge played just 7:17 of the Blazers' loss to the Clippers before asking out of the game. At the hospital, dehydration and potassium deficiency were given as possible reasons for the dizziness, but the Blazers decided to sit Aldridge while consulting doctors.

Portland last week lost leading scorer and rebounder Zach Randolph, after his season was shut down so he could undergo hand surgery.

The decision was made one day after Randolph had 43 points and 17 points against the Memphis Grizzlies. Randolph played that game with some extra padding on his hand but the pain and swelling had worsened the next day. The surgery repaired ligaments and removed bone fragments and will require the forward to wear a cast for the next four weeks.

The Blazers have already been without center Joel Przybilla, who had season-ending knee surgery.

Because of the thin front line, the team signed NBDL call-up Luke Schenscher for the rest of the season.

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A BANNER DAY: The Blazers will retire the No. 14 jersey worn by guard Lionel Hollins in a ceremony during the season finale April 18 against the Golden State Warriors.

Hollins will be the sixth member of the franchise's 1977 championship team to have his number retired, joining Dave Twardzik, Larry Steele, Maurice Lucas, Bill Walton and Lloyd Neal. Clyde Drexler and Geoff Petrie have also had their numbers retired.

The game will also feature a reunion of players from the '77 team. Hollins played for the Blazers from 1975-80.

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BUILDING BACK: The investment company owned by Paul Allen, Vulcan Inc., said Monday it had finalized an agreement to buy back the Rose Garden Arena, the home of the Blazers since it was built in 1995. Allen's company had lost the arena to creditors in bankruptcy proceedings in 2004 and had announced in February that it agreed to repurchase it.

Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft Corp., had briefly put the Blazers on the market but changed his mind.