{"id":508180,"date":"2026-10-26T06:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508180\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:54:14","slug":"los-angeles-plays-portland-following-doncics-52-point-outing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/508180\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles plays Portland following Doncic&#8217;s 52-point outing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Associated Press<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/portland-trail-blazers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> (2-0, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> (3-0, second in the Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Los Angeles; Tuesday, 11 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">BOTTOM LINE: Los Angeles faces the Portland Trail Blazers after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/luka-doncic-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luka Doncic<\/a> scored 52 points in the Los Angeles Lakers&#8217; 132-123 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/utah-jazz-team\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Los Angeles finished 53-29 overall, 33-19 in Western Conference action and 28-13 at home during the 2025-26 season. The Lakers averaged 116.3 points per game last season, 20.4 from the free-throw line and 35.4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Portland went 42-40 overall and 29-23 in Western Conference action during the 2025-26 season. The Trail Blazers averaged 25.1 assists per game on 40.9 made field goals last season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">INJURIES: Lakers: Cameron Carr: out (oblique), Adou Thiero: out (knee).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">Trail Blazers: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com\/nba\/chris-youngblood-player\" class=\"entity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Youngblood<\/a>: day to day (ankle), Shaedon Sharpe: out (meniscus), Branden Carlson: day to day (concussion protocol).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"ff-h fs-16 lh-1pt6 mg-b-15 article-content\" use-external-image=\"true\" data-v-baabd5ed=\"\">The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press Portland Trail Blazers (2-0, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Los Angeles Lakers (3-0, second in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[194927,80631,48,52,51,47,50,2497,49,7551,20784,7502,15965],"class_list":["post-508180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-chris-youngblood","tag-event_preview","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-luka-doncic","tag-national-basketball-association","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}