PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 27 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocks in his return from a concussion and the San Antonio Spurs took a 3-1 lead in their first-round series against the Portland Trail Blazers with a 114-93 victory on Sunday.<\/p>\n
De’Aaron Fox added 28 points for the Spurs, who will return home for Game 5 on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n
The Spurs announced about an hour before the game that Wembanyama, the 7-foot-4 Defensive Player of the Year, would play after clearing the league’s concussion protocol.<\/p>\n
The Spurs trailed the Blazers by 17 points at the half, but the game was knotted at 74 going into the fourth quarter. Fox and Keldon Johnson hit back-to-back 3-pointers to put the Spurs up 90-77 with 7:14 left.<\/p>\n
Johnson’s dunk with 4:31 remaining made it 101-81 for San Antonio and all but sealed the win.<\/p>\n
Deni Avdija led the Trail Blazers with 26 points. There was tense moment with 2:13 left when Avdija and Stephon Castle exchanged shoves. They were given offsetting technical fouls.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama sustained a concussion in the first half of San Antonio’s 106-103 loss on Tuesday and was unavailable Friday night for Game 3. But the Spurs rallied in the third quarter and won 120-108 to take the series lead.<\/p>\n
Wembanyama, who was listed as questionable going into the game, started and drew gasps from the crowd at the Moda Center with an emphatic dunk with 9:58 to go in the first half.<\/p>\n
Portland went ahead 45-28 in the first half on an 18-3 run. Robert Williams III dunked before a pair of quick 3-pointers from Jerami Grant and Scoot Henderson. Avdija capped the run with a fadeaway jumper.<\/p>\n
The Blazers led by as many as 19 in the half and were ahead 58-41 at the break.<\/p>\n
Castle, who had 33 points in San Antonio\u2019s Game 3 win, appeared to injure his left hand in the first half but returned.<\/p>\n
The Spurs went on a 13-0 run to open the second half and closed the gap to 58-54 as the Blazers went cold. Devin Vassell’s jumper with 4:38 tied it at 62 for the Spurs. He hit another to put San Antonio in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Victor Wembanyama had 27 points, 11 rebounds and seven blocks in his return from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[16024,86098,32000,91627,41579,23681,202,196,88235,42094,43368,942,97605,82,84,83,64046,99309,1504,509],"class_list":{"0":"post-267545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-deaaron-fox","9":"tag-deni-avdija","10":"tag-devin-vassell","11":"tag-jerami-grant","12":"tag-keldon-johnson","13":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","14":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","15":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","16":"tag-product-32547-ap-online-basketball-game-stories","17":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","18":"tag-product-40808-ap-oregon-sports-only","19":"tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","20":"tag-robert-williams","21":"tag-san-antonio","22":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","23":"tag-san-antonio-news","24":"tag-scoot-henderson","25":"tag-spurs-trail-blazers-score","26":"tag-stephon-castle","27":"tag-victor-wembanyama"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}