{"id":377585,"date":"2025-12-30T16:23:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377585\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T16:23:09","slug":"avdija-just-shy-of-triple-double-as-trail-blazers-hold-off-mavericks-125-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377585\/","title":{"rendered":"Avdija just shy of triple-double as Trail Blazers hold off Mavericks 125-122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Deni Avdija had 27 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, and Shaedon Sharpe added 24 points as the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the Dallas Mavericks 125-122 on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Caleb Love also scored 24 for the Blazers off the bench, including six 3-pointers and the go-ahead free throws with under a minute remaining.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/YUIVNDKT5ZGJTHKBPFGKZSTUKY.jpg\" alt=\"Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, right, drives to the basket against Dallas Mavericks guard Brandon Williams, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday Dec. 29, 2025, in Portland, Ore.\" class=\"width_full\" style=\"aspect-ratio:6162 \/ 4110;width:100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija, right, drives to the basket against Dallas Mavericks guard Brandon Williams, left, during the second half of an NBA basketball game Monday Dec. 29, 2025, in Portland, Ore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__image-by color_dgray f_s_xxs m-none\">Howard Lao \/ AP<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Klay Thompson\u2019s 3-point attempt to tie the game at the buzzer missed as Portland avoided blowing a 17-point lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Max Christie led the Mavericks with 25 points and Brandon Williams scored 22. Cooper Flagg had 15 points, eight assists and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">The teams exchanged the lead eight times in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland led 95-84 with 1:30 left in the third before the Mavericks went on a 9-2 run, capped by a running 3 with 0.7 seconds left by Thompson to make it 97-93.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Thompson then tied the game at 99 on a 3 with 9:35 remaining. Christie gave the Mavericks their first lead of the second half at 106-105 on a 3-pointer with 6:56 to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Dallas led by four before Avdija\u2019s layup and a 3 by Love put Portland back ahead 118-117 with 2 1\/2 minutes left. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Christie\u2019s 3-pointer gave Dallas a 122-121 edge with 1:09 remaining, but the Mavericks never scored again. Love sank two free throws with 53.2 seconds left, Naji Marshall missed a pair of 3s for Dallas, and Sharpe added two foul shots with three seconds remaining for the final margin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland pushed its lead to 17 multiple times in the second quarter before taking a 75-63 advantage into halftime. <\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Dallas hosts Philadelphia on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">Portland visits Oklahoma City on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-body__text article-body--padding color_dgray m-none\">AP NBA: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija had 27 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds, and Shaedon Sharpe added 24 points as the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82,161170],"class_list":["post-377585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-sports-trail-blazers-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377585","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=377585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}