{"id":192924,"date":"2025-12-19T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192924\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:42:08","slug":"trail-blazers-outlast-kings-134-133-in-overtime-on-avdijas-late-free-throws-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/192924\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Blazers outlast Kings 134-133 in overtime on Avdija&#8217;s late free throws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deni Avdija made two free throws with 1.5 seconds left in overtime for the last of his 35 points, and the Portland Trail Blazers outlasted the Sacramento Kings 134-133 on Thursday night to open a home-and-home set.<\/p>\n<p>The teams will meet again Saturday night in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>DeMar DeRozan 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. DeRozan&#8217;s 3-pointer with eight seconds left forced overtime, completing a 17-2 run in the final 2:28 of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>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<p>Shaedon Sharpe added 26 points for Portland, hitting 4 of 6 3-pointers. Jerami Grant scored 20 points, Donovan Clingan had 19 and Toumani Camara 17.<\/p>\n<p>Maxime Raynaud 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        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deni Avdija made two free throws with 1.5 seconds left in overtime for the last of his 35&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4290,85,46,47352,34397,67978,110197,110196,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-192924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-russell-westbrook","15":"tag-sacramento-kings","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}