{"id":274471,"date":"2025-11-10T15:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274471\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:50:07","slug":"cade-cunningham-lifts-the-detroit-pistons-portland-trail-blazers-stop-the-oklahoma-city-thunder-cedric-coward-continues-to-impress-plus-a-look-ahead-to-week-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/274471\/","title":{"rendered":"Cade Cunningham lifts the Detroit Pistons, Portland Trail Blazers stop the Oklahoma City Thunder, Cedric Coward continues to impress \u2014 plus a look ahead to Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Duop Reath<\/a> was the catalyst in seizing the momentum for the Blazers. He buried three triples in the second period (nine points) to steady the ship, then beat the third-quarter buzzer with another long-range make to trim it to 86\u201381. From there, Jrue Holiday<\/a> took control: a pull-up gave the Blazers their first lead at 97\u201396 with 6:44 left; on the next trip, a backcourt violation forced by Portland\u2019s defence set up Holiday\u2019s three-pointer for 100\u201396.<\/p>\n

Oklahoma City weren\u2019t done. Aaron Wiggins (27) rattled off five straight to edge the Thunder back ahead 101\u2013100, and the lead changed hands repeatedly until Jerami Grant (20 off the bench) nudged Portland in front 105\u2013104. In the closing seconds, Holiday\u2019s composure iced it: two free throws with six seconds remaining made it 121\u2013118. After a review ruled Isaiah Joe\u2019s last-gasp jumper a two, he hit the first free throw, intentionally missed the second, and OKC\u2019s tip attempt fell short as time expired.<\/p>\n

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a> was majestic with 35 points, but the Thunder were shorthanded \u2014 Chet Holmgren, Lu Dort<\/a> and Alex Caruso all sat after the previous night\u2019s win in Los Angeles. Even so, Portland\u2019s blend of grit, adjustments, and late-game execution made this game among the week\u2019s standout contests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Duop Reath was the catalyst in seizing the momentum for the Blazers. He buried three triples in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-274471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}