{"id":355437,"date":"2025-12-19T12:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355437\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T12:16:09","slug":"portland-trail-blazers-outlast-sacramento-kings-in-overtime-on-avdijas-late-free-throws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355437\/","title":{"rendered":"Portland Trail Blazers outlast Sacramento Kings in overtime on Avdija\u2019s late free throws"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Deni Avdija<\/a> made two free throws with 1.5 seconds left in overtime for the last of his 35 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> outlasted the Sacramento Kings<\/a> 134-133 on Thursday night to open a home-and-home set.<\/p>\n

The teams will meet again Saturday night in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

DeMar DeRozan<\/a> hit a jumper with four seconds left to give the Kings a 133-132 lead. With no timeouts, Portland raced down the court and Avdija was fouled by Russell Westbrook<\/a>. DeRozan\u2019s 3-pointer with eight seconds left forced overtime, completing a 17-2 run in the final 2:28 of regulation.<\/p>\n

DeRozan led Sacramento with 33 points, with 22 of the points coming in the fourth quarter and overtime. He was 3 of 4 from 3-point range, 10 of 16 overall from the field and made all 10 of his free throws.<\/p>\n

Avdija was 12 for 19 from the field and made 10 of 12 free throws. The shooting guard also had five assists and five turnovers.<\/p>\n

Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> added 26 points for Portland, hitting 4 of 6 3-pointers. Jerami Grant<\/a> scored 20 points, Donovan Clingan<\/a> had 19 and Toumani Camara<\/a> 17.<\/p>\n

Maxime Raynaud<\/a> added a career-high 29 points for Sacramento. Westbrook had 20 points and 10 assists. He was 8 of 11 from the field.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/p>\n

Erik Garc\u00eda Gundersen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Deni Avdija made two free throws with 1.5 seconds left in overtime for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-355437","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\/355437","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=355437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}