{"id":437892,"date":"2026-01-28T04:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437892\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T04:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T04:35:07","slug":"wizards-115-111-trail-blazers-jan-27-2026-game-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/437892\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizards 115-111 Trail Blazers (Jan 27, 2026) Game Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON — \u2014 Alex Sarr<\/a> had 29 points, 12 rebounds and six blocked shots, and the Washington Wizards<\/a> snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 115-111 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

It was Washington’s first home victory over Portland since Jan. 16, 2017.<\/p>\n

The Wizards led 112-106 when Shaedon Sharpe<\/a> cut the lead in half with a 3-pointer. After Bub Carrington<\/a> tossed up an air ball for Washington, Sharpe’s dunk with 20.5 seconds left cut the lead to one.<\/p>\n

Kyshawn George<\/a> made one of two free throws with 15.5 seconds to play, putting the Wizards up 113-111. After a timeout, Sharpe’s contested jumper missed, and Khris Middleton<\/a>‘s free throws made it a four-point game.<\/p>\n

Sharpe scored 31 points for Portland, which lost despite a 69-46 advantage in rebounds. The Trail Blazers shot just 13 of 23 on free throws.<\/p>\n

The 7-foot-1 Sarr attempted a career-high 29 field goals, making 11. It was quite a battle of young big men between him and 7-foot-3 Donovan Clingan<\/a>, who had 14 points and 20 rebounds for Portland. Ex-Wizard Deni Avdija<\/a> had 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Blazers.<\/p>\n

The Wizards led 60-53 at halftime, but Portland was up 104-100 before an 8-0 Washington run. Carrington’s three-point play and a 3-pointer by George gave the Wizards the lead for good.<\/p>\n

Avdija and Washington’s Bilal Coulibaly<\/a> both returned after missing time with back issues.<\/p>\n

Portland had 29 offensive rebounds and finished with a 31-14 advantage in second-chance points.<\/p>\n

Up next <\/p>\n

Trail Blazers: At New York on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Wizards: Host Milwaukee on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nba<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON — \u2014 Alex Sarr had 29 points, 12 rebounds and six blocked shots, and the Washington Wizards…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-437892","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\/437892","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=437892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}