{"id":416967,"date":"2026-01-18T07:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T07:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T07:44:08","slug":"shaedon-sharpe-leads-portland-trail-blazers-to-win-over-luka-less-los-angeles-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/416967\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaedon Sharpe leads Portland Trail Blazers to win over Luka-less Los Angeles Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> had 25 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> to a 132-116 victory Saturday night over the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>, who were playing without top scorer Luka Doncic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jerami Grant<\/a> and Caleb Love<\/a> each added 22 points for the Blazers, who have won seven of their last nine games.<\/p>\n

Marcus Smart<\/a> had 25 points for the Lakers but he limped off the court midway through the fourth quarter and did not return. The extent of his injury was not known.<\/p>\n

LeBron James<\/a> added 20 points, nine rebounds and eight assists. Drew Timme<\/a> finished with 21 points off the bench. <\/p>\n

Doncic, who leads the league with an average of 33.6 points a game, did not play because of left groin soreness. Lakers coach JJ Redick<\/a> said before the game that Doncic\u2019s MRI was clear and he\u2019s day-to-day. Doncic had 39 points in the Lakers\u2019 135-117 loss to Charlotte on Thursday. <\/p>\n

Los Angeles was also without center Deandre Ayton<\/a> because of left knee soreness. <\/p>\n

Portland remained without top scorer Deni Avdija<\/a>, who missed his third game because of a back injury. Avdija was averaging 26.1 points a game. <\/p>\n

The Blazers led by 14 points in the first half, but the Moda Center crowd still cheered loudly when James dunked to close the Lakers within 53-47 in the second quarter. Portland led 71-61 at the half. <\/p>\n

James lobbed a pass to Smart who hit a 3-pointer to pull the Lakers within 75-67 in the third quarter but Sharpe answered with a dunk.<\/p>\n

Portland stretched its lead to 24 points late in the game and Redick sent James to the bench with 5:40 left. <\/p>\n

Up Next<\/p>\n

The Lakers host Toronto on Sunday. <\/p>\n

The Trail Blazers visit the Atlanta Hawks<\/a> on Monday night.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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

Anne M. Peterson, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Shaedon Sharpe had 25 points to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 132-116…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-416967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416967","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=416967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}